Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:43:24 +0200 (CEST) From: "Bernhard Froehlich" <decke@bluelife.at> To: "Andriy Gapon" <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, vbox@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: virtualbox: out of memory on start [Was: DRI initialiazation fails on 8.0-BETAx/M54] Message-ID: <d235c5e37d1b9bdacb5d663cd519994b.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> In-Reply-To: <4AACA736.5010405@freebsd.org> References: <4A9D7560.7060902@freebsd.org> <1251840705.1689.4440.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4A9E7B42.9070608@icyb.net.ua> <4AACA736.5010405@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, September 13, 2009 10:03 am, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 02/09/2009 17:03 Andriy Gapon said the following: >> >> BTW, I have a different but potentially related problem - after running >> a >> head/current system for a while I am losing an ability to start >> VirtualBox. It >> complains about something "no memory" too. >> The system is amd64 with 4G of RAM with only a handful of processes >> started. >> Maybe we got some regression in memory area (e.g. pmap)? > > So I got this problem again and I'd like to gather as much useful debug > information as possible, but I am not sure what would that be. > > Here's a message from virtualbox: > GVMMR0CreateVM: failed, rc=-8 > > This machine has 4GB of RAM and only a handful of applications are started > (but > in KDE4). But memory usage line from top looks suspicious: > Mem: 1439M Active, 199M Inact, 1308M Wired, 669M Cache, 392M Buf, 61M Free > Wired is huge, Buf and Cache are also substantial. > Maybe something to do with ZFS? > > And, yes, just noticed, this is what virtualbox wrote in virtual machine's > log: > Host RAM: 3822MB RAM, available: 30MB > So it seems like it needs Free memory and can not pressure other memory to > get freed or got to swap. I've had a look at the code and found that "available" is interpreted as "free" which is wrong. According to my understanding available RAM means Free + Cached + Inactive so i have created a patch for that and commited it to our svn port as r491. Could you please give it a try? (we have automatically build tar's now :o) http://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port.tar.gz -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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