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Running a Single Bot in VirtualBox has Cost me 10GB of Memory How is this Possible???
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1426617" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>VBox VMs expand but they don't shrink if you are using a dynamic drive. So, if at some point you had used up a lot of virtual disk space, the VM would have expanded to meet that but will not have shrunk when the data was collected.</p><p></p><p>Here's an example: let's say you have a 10GB disk. After the OS install, you've used up 3GB and so, your HD is 3GB. After installing 5GB worth of apps, your HD grows to 8GB. At some point though, you uninstall the 5GB worth of apps. After doing so though, the HD doesn't shrink and remains 8GB.</p><p></p><p>You can compress the drives but it requires that you go to the command line and the process differs for each guest OS. In either case, it involves zeroing the free space and then using the VBoxManage tool to compress it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1426617, member: 71075"] VBox VMs expand but they don't shrink if you are using a dynamic drive. So, if at some point you had used up a lot of virtual disk space, the VM would have expanded to meet that but will not have shrunk when the data was collected. Here's an example: let's say you have a 10GB disk. After the OS install, you've used up 3GB and so, your HD is 3GB. After installing 5GB worth of apps, your HD grows to 8GB. At some point though, you uninstall the 5GB worth of apps. After doing so though, the HD doesn't shrink and remains 8GB. You can compress the drives but it requires that you go to the command line and the process differs for each guest OS. In either case, it involves zeroing the free space and then using the VBoxManage tool to compress it. [/QUOTE]
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