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Date:      Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:50:05 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" <emulation@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [VBox] Why VirtualBox process is so large?
Message-ID:  <CAE-m3X3EBfE_p5oizxMFg5W1k8OQSzPSWcEoSwsx1Tuzx_q9QQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:
> I have the VM that is allocated 512MB of base memory for the guest, but its
> total memory size on host is 1263MB. This seems excessive.
> What is the normal memory overhead for the VM? Is there a way to reduce it?
> Documentation doesn't elaborate on this.
>
> virtualbox-4.2.18
> 9.2

The used RAM is usually VM RAM + GPU RAM + (QT4 GUI) + overhead. How
did you measure those 1263MB on the host?

-- 
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/



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