Hi guys,
I have an issue with the latest VM Ware version on Lion. It generally speaking behaves exactly like stated in the following article : VMware KB: Understanding memory allocation for VMware Fusion.
When suspending an active VM, the wired mem goes down and the active mem goes up in the same amount. When restarting the VM it starts in super speed as obviously the memory state is still in active pages cached in memory.
The issue now occurrs when quitting VM ware. Other than described the memory is *not* freed and active mem remains as high as it was before.
I created these snapshots using three different virtual machines:
I definitely checked that no existing process is consuming the active memory, I even checked with zprint that no kernel structure is holding that mem (see attached files). Using the same VM with multiple start/stop cycles, additional memory is not leaked - the active mem always seems to be reused, so Fusion obviously knows 'where it is'.
Now the questions:
- has someone seen the same behavior?
- is there a way to "free" the memory manually?
- is there an option to switch this off?
Thank you in advance,
Tim.