Without warning, and without any interactions with the guest OS (simply idling in the background), memory usage spike dramatically. All host OS interactions came to a standstill or crashed. After about 5 minutes of attempts I managed to force quit parallels desktop. I had capped the guest OS at 12 GB out of my systems 16 GB of ram. This is what activity monitor looked like: It drops immediately after force quitting Parallels. Frankly this is unacceptable behavior.
Hi Alex, Please submit a Problem Report ID http://kb.parallels.com/9058 and provided us the ID number here, to investigate further on this issue.
