We have developed an OCR product that works fine on hard machines, currently I am testing it with Windows V7 SP1 on a hard machine.
No problems at all.
We have a customer who reports that our product consumes all available memory when using VMware with Windows V7 SPI as a guest.
They are seeing the problem with VMware Cloud director 5.2 and also VMware Workstation 10.0.
After a lot of work at both ends, I am coming to the conclusion that the "problem" is an illusion.
No one at our company have any access to VMware to test this however.
What seems to be happening (from reports from our client), is that our application (which never exits). increases private memory usage
to the limits allocated to the VM before plateauing. It is the only process running in it's own VM. It is also only processing 4 files in a continuous
loop.
My contention is that :
- because only 4 files are ever being handled, the disk cache is not being exercised,
- with no competition for resources,, Windows is being "lazy" and never reclaiming used memory from our application until all free memory
has gone.
Has anyone else noticed this behaviour with any other application ?
I see a lot of similar issues while googling, mainly under Apple's IOS system, very little for Window''s systems.
Sorry for not being a VMware user yet, but hey we are trying to help one.
Regards
Steve