https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230681 Bug ID: 1230681 Summary: Virtualbox memory allocation failure when memory is cached Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 15.6 Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel Assignee: kernel-bugs@opensuse.org Reporter: nettezzaumanaa@gmail.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Target Milestone: --- Found By: --- Blocker: --- Hello, I have vbox and kernel from Kernel:/stable:/Backport repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable:/Backport/standard... https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable:/Backport:/KMP/sta... # zypper -vv se -is | egrep 'kernel(|-kmp)$' i+ | kernel-default | package | 6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | x86_64 | kernel i | kernel-default-devel | package | 6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | x86_64 | kernel i+ | kernel-devel | package | 6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-all | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-amdgpu | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-ath10k | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-ath11k | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-ath12k | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-atheros | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-bluetooth | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-bnx2 | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-brcm | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-chelsio | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-dpaa2 | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-i915 | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-intel | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-iwlwifi | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-liquidio | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-marvell | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-media | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-mediatek | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-mellanox | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-mwifiex | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-network | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-nfp | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-nvidia | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-platform | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-prestera | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-qcom | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-qlogic | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-radeon | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-realtek | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-serial | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-sound | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-ti | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-ueagle | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-firmware-usb-network | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-macros | package | 6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-source | package | 6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | noarch | kernel i+ | kernel-syms | package | 6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | x86_64 | kernel i+ | python3-virtualbox | package | 7.0.20-lp155.2.24 | x86_64 | kernel-kmp i+ | virtualbox | package | 7.0.20-lp155.2.24 | x86_64 | kernel-kmp i+ | virtualbox-devel | package | 7.0.20-lp155.2.24 | x86_64 | kernel-kmp i+ | virtualbox-host-source | package | 7.0.20-lp155.2.24 | noarch | kernel-kmp i+ | virtualbox-kmp-default | package | 7.0.20_k6.10.10_lp155.2.gfc3eac9-lp155.2.16 | x86_64 | kernel-kmp i+ | virtualbox-qt | package | 7.0.20-lp155.2.24 | x86_64 | kernel-kmp With following memory conditions # free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 31464 7981 367 1836 25417 23482 Swap: 32767 171 32596 I was unable to start a vbox VM with 8GB memory .. Issue is exactly same as here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=298056 .. after echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches I was able to start a VBOX VM and following was a memory usage minute after starting VM # free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 31464 16524 14208 1827 2959 14939 Swap: 32767 171 32596 This seems to me like some bug with VBox's memory allocation (? and/or possibly kernel 6.10) and this behaviour should not happen .. Workaround: force to drop caches before starting VBox's VM <------- additional info: Environment: I have a leap 15.6 with no special settings running on laptop with 32GBs memory .. I have added two Kernel: repos above and I use Kernel from there because otherwise I have a lot of i915 deathscreams in dmesg and possibly X lockups and freezes due to relatively new hardware # lspci -nn |grep -Ei 'VGA|DISPLAY' 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:a7a1] (rev 04) # grep Intel /proc/cpuinfo |tail -1 model name : 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1365U Thank you very much for your support !! Hail Geeko !! ~d -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.