When running a virtual machine in VMware (Ubuntu 16.04 host), both the guest system (Windows 10 at the moment) and the host system regularly become unresponsive for several seconds, e.g. when starting Atom or Visual Studio in the guest VM.
RAM usage reports look normal (16 GB total, 6.5 GB used by the VM as “shared memory”, some GB free), but while the system is unresponsive, IO tasks are either suspended or very slow, for example copy/paste of text takes several seconds.
Changing settings (virtualisation settings, VM’s RAM, …) in VMware does not have any effect.
free -h
, the memory used by VMware does not show up in “used memory” but only in “shared” (for example, it shows 2 GB used and 3 GB free currently). Will update the question to clarify that :)