Re: Usage of vmware-toolbox-cmd

[Reindl H. <h.r...@th...>]

Am 30.03.2012 13:48, schrieb Stanislav:
> On 3/30/2012 3:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 30.03.2012 13:11, schrieb Stanislav:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a question about "vmware-toolbox-cmd". When I run it in the Guest OS(linux) I see:
>>> root@ubuntu-console:~# /usr/local/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd stat memlimit          4294967295 MB
>>> What does it mean? When I change memory allocated for VM I don't see that this value changed. This is for ESXi 4.1.
>> this is not the allocated memory of the VM (RAM)
>> this is the LIMIT which can be lower to partly
>> force memory get ballooned or even compressed
>>
>> look for "ressource limits" in the viclient
>> these can be changed at runtime also in viclient
>> assigned memory itself usually not (depends on license and guest-OS)
>>
> Thanks!
> 
> And how can I get amount of allocated memory in runtime? When I use "cat 
> /proc/meminfo" in the Guest OS it shows lower values that I set in the 
> viclient for VM

BTW: you are aware that this is a devel-list?


free -m

the guest has 8500 MB RAm allocated
the rest is kernel assigned memory

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          8289       7913        376          0        605       3389
-/+ buffers/cache:       3918       4371
Swap:          511          0        511

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there is nothing different on physical machines
below my workstation with 16 GB RAM

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         15939      15718        220          0        234      13241
-/+ buffers/cache:       2242      13696
Swap:         2047          2       2045