Hi TIm,
I don't know how Parallels grabs memory, so I can only presume I'm also watching a gradual memory leak with my installation of Parallels 3120 RC1.
When I first start up Windows, Parrallels Desktop uses about 210 MB. This gradually rises (without doing anything) to over 270 MB in the space of about 3 minutes without me doing anything.
I'm also doing some very processor intensive work numerically modeling fluid flow, and while this is running I see the amount of memory being used creep at about faster within 'Activity Monitor' by over 100Mb during a 10 minute simulation.
Once it has consumed about 500Mb then the memory usage does appear to remains more stable. But only just.
Starting MS applications like Excel or Word raise the memory usage by about 2MB. This doesn't drop when I shut down the applications.
I'm on a Mac Pro 2.66 GHz with 3GB of RAM.
Running Windows XP SP2, with the following config (note the '...' that replace boring zero settings :
Code:
[System]
Parallels VM Name = Windows XP
VM Id = {015137c0-59b4-42e1-95c0-a029a98655bf}
VM Description =
Boot = c
OS Type = 135
Memory = 804
Video Memory = 16
Memory block size = 10
Acceleration level = 2
Enable write-back disk cache = 1
VT-x support = 1
Start auto = 0
AutoShutdown = 0
Start full screen = 0
Start dashmode = 0
Start full screen warning = 1
PC Speaker enable = 1
Multi frame = -1
[Shared folders]
Shared folders enabled = 1
Global sharing enabled = 1
Shared folders count = 3
Folder0 enabled = 0
Folder0 readonly = 0
Folder0 name = Data
Folder0 path = /Volumes/Data
Folder0 descr =
Folder1 enabled = 0
Folder1 readonly = 0
Folder1 name = My Documents
Folder1 path = /Users/will
Folder1 descr =
Folder2 enabled = 1
Folder2 readonly = 0
Folder2 name = Unix
Folder2 path = /Volumes/Unix
Folder2 descr =
[Video]
Video resolutions enabled = 0
Video resolutions count = 0
[Coherence]
Show taskbar = 0
Relocate taskbar = 0
Exclude Dock = 1
Multiple displays = 0
[Floppy disks]
Floppy 0 enabled = 1
Floppy 0 = 1
Floppy 0 image = /Users/will/Library/Parallels/winxp.copy1/unattended.fdd
Floppy 0 connected = 1
[IDE devices]
Disk 0:0 enabled = 1
Disk 0:0 = 1
Disk 0:0 media = 0
Disk 0:0 connected = 1
Disk 0:0 image = winxp_plain.hdd
Disk 0:0 cylinders = 40635
Disk 0:0 heads = 16
Disk 0:0 sectors = 63
Disk 0:1 enabled = 1
Disk 0:1 = 2
Disk 0:1 media = 1
Disk 0:1 connected = 1
Disk 0:1 image = Default CD/DVD-ROM
Disk 1:0 enabled = 0
Disk 1:0 = 0
Disk 1:1 enabled = 0
Disk 1:1 = 0
[Serial ports]
COM1 enabled = 0
COM1 = 0
COM2 enabled = 0
COM2 = 0
COM3 enabled = 0
COM3 = 0
COM4 enabled = 0
COM4 = 0
[Parallel ports]
LPT1 enabled = 0
LPT1 = 0
LPT2 enabled = 0
LPT2 = 0
LPT3 enabled = 0
LPT3 = 0
[Sound]
Sound enabled = 1
Sound = 1
Sound connected = 1
Sound device = dsp
Mixer device = mixer
[Network]
Network enabled = 1
Network = 1
Network connected = 1
Adapter No = 0
Adapter name = Default Adapter
Adapter type = 4
Port = 0x00000300
IRQ = 3
MAC address = 00f0937a9f4c
Network2 enabled = 0
Network2 = 0
Network3 enabled = 0
Network3 = 0
Network4 enabled = 0
Network4 = 0
Network5 enabled = 0
Network5 = 0
[Usb]
USB enabled = 0
USB = 1
USB autoconnect = 0
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On a separate note my Shared Networking doesn't work and no amount of installing or re-installing seems to help that.
Otherwise a great product.
I'm heading back to the 1940 release to test the above. The new features are great, but I would focus on making it work now - and multiprocessor when thats done.
Will.
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