Problem with allocating memory, although virtual memory was increased

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Sophia-IT
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Problem with allocating memory, although virtual memory was increased

Post by Sophia-IT »

Hi everyone :)

I have 8GB of RAM, and I increased my virtual memory/page file to 32GB.

I'm running a 4GB guest machine, and when I'm trying to start another machine with 2GB of RAM (6GB of RAM in total), I get the attached message :(

The whole idea of a "virtual memory" or a page file is that I could use it as a memory, if my RAM is too low, no? :roll:

Please see attached logs and screenshots.

Thank you!!

Sophia
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Last edited by mpack on 26. Aug 2020, 11:36, edited 2 times in total.
Reason: Replace multiple logs with one relevant log.
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Re: Problem with allocating memory, although virtual memory was increased

Post by mpack »

A VM is running its own OS, it doesn't use host OS paged RAM intended for user land apps, so we don't need to see all that "Virtual Memory" stuff. All that matters is how much physical memory you have, how much is available for use, and how much you allocated to the VM.
Log file wrote: 00:00:04.832884 Host RAM: 7069MB (6.9GB) total, 450MB available
Speaks for itself really.

P.s., for the future, we only need to see one log. I don't need to see all the backup copies as well. Thanks for remembering to zip the logs however.
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Re: Problem with allocating memory, although virtual memory was increased

Post by Sophia-IT »

Thank you very much for your answer!

Sophia
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