I’m using the latest stable release of Manjaro, and I’ve noticed that my VirtualBox (7.2.2-1) with Windows 10 with 3D acceleration enabled slowly consumes more and more RAM. Its starting at around 200MB and eventually reaching up to 9GB. Has anyone else encountered this issue before?
It will not and cannot consume more RAM than what you assigned to that VM.
… 200 MB for a Windows 10 VM seems implausibly low in even the best of possible scenarios …
I’m not referring to the ram allocated to the virtual machine. I mean the RAM the virtualbox application itself uses on the host system, you can see it in the kde system monitor’s “applications” section . it starts at 200 and climbs so high, that i keep running out of memory.
so: how much did you allocate?
If it uses more than that, that would be a flaw in VirtualBox.
I do not use that software.
I use libvirt/VirtManager.
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i gave it 12 gigs out of my 32. the first time i ran out of memory, vbox basically took ~20gigs by itself. I probably will go with kvm setup too, with it being faster and not leaking memory
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without knowing your vbox-setup but 20 GB for itself ? this is very unusual, never heard before