Hello.
I've got a newly built host running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I've installed VMWare player 6.0.3 build-1895310 64-bit. The host has an an i5 processor and 16GB RAM. I've got a Windows 7 Pro VM with 4GB RAM allocated to it. This VM is running video management software that is writing about 2Mbps to the virtual disk. When I start the VM I see it consume approx 4GB RAM as expected but then I notice Linux (via top) slowly eating away at the remaining RAM. An hour later and I'm almost out of wired RAM.
top - 17:35:03 up 7:41, 3 users, load average: 0.40, 0.50, 0.54
Tasks: 201 total, 1 running, 200 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.4 us, 11.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 87.1 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 16124700 total, 15951644 used, 173056 free, 34252 buffers
KiB Swap: 16461820 total, 0 used, 16461820 free. 14946256 cached Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5628 root 20 0 6251652 4.201g 4.060g S 48.3 27.3 28:48.89 vmware-vmx
The only fix is of course a reboot as the leak seems to be happening in the kernel or some driver. I don't see a user-land process eating this.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Jim