Hi,
I run some windows virtual machines in a Workstation and I am pretty confused about 'free' output:
| total | used | free | shared | buffers | cached | |
| Mem: | 59G | 58G | 576M | 46G | 146M | 51G |
| -/+ buffers/cache: | 6,8G | 52G | ||||
| Swap: | 71G | 344M | 71G |
Since 'used' without 'cached' is 6.8G, I assumed, until some days ago, that TPS was enabled and a lot of memory was deduplicated between my many windows VM's.
But after some problems running more VM's, and the OOM killer appearing when I disable swap, I think that TPS is not working, is it available for Workstation? If yes, how can I enable it?
I would like to know exactly why the used/cache values are so confusing when running vmware virtual machines.
Thanks.