[vbox-dev] vbox page fusion results

[Liang Suilong]

I have upgraded to VirtualBox-3.2.4. However, Page Fusion still causes
kernel oops ramdomly on my Fedora 12 x86_64 host. I try to run two Windows
32bit guests. One is Windows XP 32bit, the other is Windows Server 2003
32bit. They are the same.

Not long ago, I wrote a post to here but no one replied to me. Should I post
a bug report?

My post is here:
http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-dev/2010-May/002804.html

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:

> I am seeing something that looks a lot better now J
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> For a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine with 768MG of RAM, with nothing
> installed.
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> host       RAM/VMM/Shared       75564 kB
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> host       RAM/VMM/Shared:avg   75564 kB
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> host       RAM/VMM/Shared:min   75564 kB
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> host       RAM/VMM/Shared:max   75564 kB
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> Win2008R2  Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared 75564 kB
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> Win2008R2  Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:avg 75564 kB
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> Win2008R2  Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:min 75564 kB
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> Win2008R2  Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:max 75564 kB
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> Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared 100608 kB
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> Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:avg 100608 kB
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> Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:min 100608 kB
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> Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:max 100608 kB
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> Can you explain why Wind2008R2 has only 75M of shared, and Win2008R2-2 is
> 100M?
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> Interestingly when I look inside the VM, I am seeing the RAM usage as
> different on the two VMs:
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> Win2008R2:  355MB
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> Win2008R2-2:  277MB.
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> Would the difference have anything to do with the page fusion?
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> Since I am running a Windows host, would it also look for shared memory
> pages from the host OS?
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> Thanks,
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> Geoff
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> *From:* vbox-dev-bounces at virtualbox.org [mailto:
> vbox-dev-bounces at virtualbox.org] *On Behalf Of *Sander van Leeuwen
> *Sent:* Monday, June 07, 2010 11:42 AM
> *To:* vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
> *Subject:* Re: [vbox-dev] vbox page fusion results
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> Wait for 3.2.4. Previous versions didn't work well for 64 bit guests.
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> On 7-6-2010 20:04, Geoff Nordli wrote:
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> Hi.
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> I didn’t get any results on the user list, probably because it is a pretty
> new function and not much non-dev use.
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> Can you share any results on page fusion?
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> Thanks,
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> Geoff
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> *From:* Geoff Nordli [mailto:geoffn at gnaa.net <geoffn at gnaa.net>]
> *Sent:* Friday, June 04, 2010 2:43 PM
> *To:* Community mailing list of VirtualBox users
> *Subject:* [VBox-users] vbox page fusion results
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> Does anyone have any results on some page fusions tests?
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> I created a clone of Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bit).  I am seeing only 2MB
> of shared memory.
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> Object     Metric               Values
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> ---------- -------------------- -----------------------------------
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> Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Total 785976 kB
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> Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Free 385540 kB
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> Win2008R2-2 Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared 4 kB
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> Win2008R2  Guest/RAM/Usage/Total 785976 kB
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> Win2008R2  Guest/RAM/Usage/Free 408496 kB
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> Win2008R2  Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared 2008 kB
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> 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.
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> Are there any tricks that I am missing?
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> Thanks,
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> Geoff
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