I am noticing a weird behavior on Parallels 4 build 3810. If I suspend my Windows XP image, then it seems to keep the memory from the XP run as active, but if I shut down Windows XP then it frees up all the used RAM. Is anyone else seeing this behavior? I like to just suspend XP when I am not using it as it will start up faster to just load a suspended image as opposed to totally shutting down and then having to start up XP. I have 3 gigs of ram and 512mb allocated for my XP image. If I suspend, it ends up causing massive paging on my system as for some reason the 512mb stays marked as active instead of freeing it up even though Parallels itself is totally closed. It seems one of the background daemons for parallels must keep the RAM as active even after a suspend. As an example: Running XP 278MB free memory reported in OS X Suspended XP and closed parallels 460MB free memory reported in OS X Shutting down XP and closed parallels 882MB free memory reported in OS X The active memory after a suspend stays active until I reload the image and quit out of Windows. Any solutions?
