Hello,
I've got some new trouble with my vmware server 1.0.4 under OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on an IBM x3400 server. Worked fine for months until I installed a security update from Novell/sue which updated my kernel - but I'm nout sure it's related to that as the server choked on usb/irq issues as well and I had to shut off the machine by cutting the power while vmware server was still running.
I have seen the thread from Nov 2007 with the same subject; but it does not help: I'm NOT running Xen.
The server has 9 GB RAM total and there is enough disk space. After startup the server seems to allocated most of the memory for caching or such
top - 23:21:12 up 3:36, 53 users, load average: 0.87, 0.74, 0.67
Tasks: 386 total, 1 running, 385 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.3%us, 0.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 90.7%id, 5.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 9221356k total, 9169464k used, 51892k free, 802168k buffers
Swap: 10490404k total, 152k used, 10490252k free, 6713732k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
21822 christia 15 0 414m 210m 23m S 24 2.3 5:22.78 firefox-bin
5330 root 18 0 903m 84m 4108 S 4 0.9 0:38.23 java
6635 christia 15 0 152m 23m 17m S 1 0.3 0:02.76 konsole
4668 root 15 0 238m 24m 9352 S 1 0.3 2:13.34 java
22737 root 15 0 8764 1368 832 R 1 0.0 0:00.12 top
1 root 18 0 808 300 244 S 0 0.0 0:02.42 init
2 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
7 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/2
8 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/2
9 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.14 migration/3
10 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/3
11 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/4
12 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/4
13 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/5
14 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/5
15 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/6
16 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/6
17 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/7
18 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/7
uluru:/etc/vmware # free -t
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 9221356 9094424 126932 0 805656 6630008
-/+ buffers/cache: 1658760 7562596
Swap: 10490404 152 10490252
Total: 19711760 9094576 10617184
uluru:/etc/vmware # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 50G 26G 22G 54% /
udev 4.4G 188K 4.4G 1% /dev
/dev/sda5 197G 164G 24G 88% /home
/dev/sda6 985G 277G 668G 30% /opt
/dev/sda7 592G 197G 365G 35% /var
And the error (see attached log) happens when the first machine ist started up
There is no other machine running:
uluru:/etc/vmware # vmrun list
Total running VMs: 0
The total memory for all machines is set to 7491 MB (the maxium allowed by vmware-server-console would be 8104, I tried that as well without success).
vmstat
procs -
memory----
-swap -
io---- -system-- -
cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
2 0 152 58344 803896 6702620 0 0 193 31 107 178 5 1 89 5
and yes, it's just after booting the system and firing up KDE
so, "increase the amount of physical memory for all virtual machines to 284 MB" does not really help, as it is already set to a much higher value.
Any hints welcome
Regards
Christian