I just upgraded to version 9.02. My PC has 16 GB of memory. It is 64-bit Win7. I set Preferences to "fit all VM memory in to reserved host RAM", and allow it to use up to 13 GB. When I start the VM which is given 4 GB it only allocates 1 GB or so, and starts paging to its .vmem file. Version 7 immediately allocated all the memory in host RAM and no .vmem paging happens.
I tried changing all the old preferences
mainmem.useNamedFile="FALSE"
sched.mem.pshare.enable="FALSE"
MemTrimRate="0"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
with no apparent effect.
The performance isn't very good with all the disk I/O to the .vmem file.
Please advise,
John