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Reducing RAM Usage On Host Machine

Muhlis
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Hi,

 

I'm using a VM on my 4 GB RAM equipped PC. I assigned 2 GBs of RAM for the VM (Windows 10), so 2 GBs of RAM will be left for the host machine. Still, after I closed my background programs, when the VM is on, my host machine's RAM reaches 98% and so on. Any suggestions on how to reduce RAM usage on the host machine, except upgrading it (I'm planning in the future)?

 

Thanks.

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What OS is your host?

 

4 GB of RAM is not enough for VMs really.

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1 hour ago, Muhlis Gursoy said:

It's Windows 10, 1909 version.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028142/windows-10-system-requirements

The 32bit version would be better for low RAM system. As the 64bit has minimum requirement of 2Gb (with 4Gb being actual working minimum).

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Increase the swap file size for both the host and vm?  Make it at least 8gb to start with for each...that still will run like a tortoise though cause of IOPS and I assume a HDD.  Why Windows 10 if resource limited?  A lighter OS is available...like Puppy linux.  Think it would run with less than 1gb of ram all day long.

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