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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How?
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:35:45 -0600
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Keep an eye on the memory usage of official vmtoolsd. On several servers
I've seen it leak and consume 2GB+ memory causing other things to be
forced into swap.

I can't vouch for open-vm-tools at this time.