Re: Allocated memory and VMWare

2010-01-15 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abel, On 1/15/2010 4:46 AM, Abel MacAdam wrote: > We manage several customers on VMWare systems. Their Tomcat installation is > used by a Content Management System written in Java. I have a question about > what happens with Tomcat when memory it has

Re: Allocated memory and VMWare

2010-01-15 Thread Mark H. Wood
As others have said, try a VMware forum for more definite answers. I use VMware slightly but I'm not anything like an expert. Meanwhile, one thing to keep in mind is that the guest OS can't tell when VMware trims the guest's memory. The guest always sees as much as it was allocated. VMware can

RE: [OT] Allocated memory and VMWare

2010-01-15 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] > Subject: Re: Allocated memory and VMWare > > I may be mistaken, but I do not know of any OS which is capable to run > with a variable (dynamic) amount of memory. The amount available is > usually set when the OS boots, and doe

Re: Allocated memory and VMWare

2010-01-15 Thread André Warnier
Abel MacAdam wrote: So I take it we should reserve the 500 MB with fixed (or rigid I think it is called) memory? That might cause other problems *). Thanks for the response. *) When you reserve flexible memory the OS of the system VMWare runs on you get a situation where more memory is allocate

Re: Allocated memory and VMWare

2010-01-15 Thread Abel MacAdam
So I take it we should reserve the 500 MB with fixed (or rigid I think it is called) memory? That might cause other problems *). Thanks for the response. *) When you reserve flexible memory the OS of the system VMWare runs on you get a situation where more memory is allocated then flexible is ava

Allocated memory and VMWare

2010-01-15 Thread Abel MacAdam
HiHi, We manage several customers on VMWare systems. Their Tomcat installation is used by a Content Management System written in Java. I have a question about what happens with Tomcat when memory it has configured is not available when necessary. Our Tomcat installations should use 500 MB (-Xmx51

Re: Allocated memory and VMWare

2010-01-15 Thread André Warnier
Mark Thomas wrote: On 15/01/2010 08:57, Abel MacAdam wrote: Hi, We manage several customers on VMWare systems. Their Tomcat installation is used by a Content Management System written in Java. I have a question about what happens with Tomcat when memory it has configured is not available when n

Re: Allocated memory and VMWare

2010-01-15 Thread Mark Thomas
On 15/01/2010 08:57, Abel MacAdam wrote: > > Hi, > > We manage several customers on VMWare systems. Their Tomcat installation is > used by a Content Management System written in Java. I have a question about > what happens with Tomcat when memory it has configured is not available when > necessar

Allocated memory and VMWare

2010-01-15 Thread Abel MacAdam
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