Parallels 18.2 `prl_vm_app` using full 16GB memory footprint of host

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by RichardD30, May 23, 2023.

  1. RichardD30

    RichardD30 Member

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    I've noticed VMs consuming a substantial amount of memory on our ec2 intel hosts. We have a bug with 18.3 so recently downgraded back to 18.2

    Running `for pid in $(ps ax | grep prl_vm_app | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }'); do sudo footprint -p $pid; done` reveals something interesting...

    I have `--memsize 1024` yet the VM is still consuming a full 15gb of `MALLOC_NANO`. How Can I prevent this?

    ```

    ======================================================================
    prl_vm_app [20493]: 64-bit Footprint: 16 GB (4096 bytes per page)
    ======================================================================

    Dirty Clean Reclaimable Regions Category
    --- --- --- --- ---
    15 GB 0 B 1536 KB 432 MALLOC_NANO
    1031 MB 0 B 0 B 66 untagged ("VM_ALLOCATE")
    65 MB 0 B 3772 KB 79 MALLOC_TINY
    20 MB 0 B 27 MB 160 MALLOC_MEDIUM
    12 MB 0 B 0 B 4 MALLOC_LARGE
    8244 KB 0 B 0 B 27 MALLOC_SMALL
    6774 KB 28 KB 0 B 358 __DATA
    824 KB 0 B 0 B 114 stack
    736 KB 0 B 0 B 3 IOKit
    488 KB 0 B 0 B 3 CoreServices
    327 KB 0 B 0 B 116 __DATA_DIRTY
    244 KB 0 B 0 B 26 MALLOC metadata
    144 KB 0 B 0 B 21 ColorSync
    37 KB 0 B 0 B 482 unused dyld shared cache area
    36 KB 0 B 0 B 1 dyld private memory
    28 KB 0 B 0 B 1 Activity Tracing
    17 KB 0 B 0 B 2 __OBJC_RW
    8192 B 0 B 0 B 1 os_alloc_once
    4096 B 0 B 0 B 2 CoreGraphics
    0 B 10 MB 0 B 373 __TEXT
    0 B 3080 KB 0 B 10 mapped file
    0 B 1076 KB 0 B 13 __LINKEDIT
    0 B 0 B 0 B 1 __CTF
    0 B 0 B 0 B 1 __FONT_DATA
    0 B 0 B 0 B 214 __DATA_CONST
    0 B 0 B 0 B 1 __OBJC_RO
    --- --- --- --- ---
    16 GB 14 MB 32 MB 2513 TOTAL

    Auxiliary data:
    dirty: -
    phys_footprint_peak: 16 GB
    phys_footprint: 16 GB
    ```
     

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