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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I am seeing something that looks a lot better now </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>For a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine with 768MG of RAM, with nothing installed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>host RAM/VMM/Shared 75564 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>host RAM/VMM/Shared:avg 75564 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>host RAM/VMM/Shared:min 75564 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>host RAM/VMM/Shared:max 75564 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Win2008R2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared 75564 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Win2008R2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:avg 75564 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Win2008R2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:min 75564 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Win2008R2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:max 75564 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared 100608 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:avg 100608 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:min 100608 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:max 100608 kB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Can you explain why Wind2008R2 has only 75M of shared, and Win2008R2-2 is 100M?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Interestingly when I look inside the VM, I am seeing the RAM usage as different on the two VMs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Win2008R2: 355MB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Win2008R2-2: 277MB.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Would the difference have anything to do with the page fusion?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Since I am running a Windows host, would it also look for shared memory pages from the host OS? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Geoff <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> vbox-dev-bounces@virtualbox.org [mailto:vbox-dev-bounces@virtualbox.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sander van Leeuwen<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 07, 2010 11:42 AM<br><b>To:</b> vbox-dev@virtualbox.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [vbox-dev] vbox page fusion results<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wait for 3.2.4. Previous versions didn't work well for 64 bit guests.<br><br>On 7-6-2010 20:04, Geoff Nordli wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I didn’t get any results on the user list, probably because it is a pretty new function and not much non-dev use.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Can you share any results on page fusion?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Geoff </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Geoff Nordli [<a href="mailto:geoffn@gnaa.net">mailto:geoffn@gnaa.net</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 04, 2010 2:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> Community mailing list of VirtualBox users<br><b>Subject:</b> [VBox-users] vbox page fusion results</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Does anyone have any results on some page fusions tests?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>I created a clone of Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bit). I am seeing only 2MB of shared memory. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Object Metric Values<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>---------- -------------------- -----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Total 785976 kB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Free 385540 kB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared 4 kB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Win2008R2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Total 785976 kB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Win2008R2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Free 408496 kB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Win2008R2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared 2008 kB<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Maybe I don’t quite understand how this is supposed to work, but I would have thought we would see a much larger amount of shared memory.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Are there any tricks that I am missing?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Geoff <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>vbox-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org">vbox-dev@virtualbox.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev">http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Met vriendelijke groet<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Sun Microsystems GmbH Sander van Leeuwen<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>71384 Weinstadt, Germany <a href="mailto:Sander.Vanleeuwen@sun.com">mailto:Sander.Vanleeuwen@sun.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>================================================<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boehmer<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>================================================<o:p></o:p></pre></div></div></body></html>