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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Mention a common pitfall in ballooning
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:57:05 +0000
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On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 17:09 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> Several users have reported that their available free memory in the
> guest when they used maxmem >> memory was much smaller than when
> maxmem == memory.  This is the unavoidable consequence of how
> ballooning works, but it's not something users expect.
> 
> Warn them of this effect in the place we tell them how to make it
> happen, so they aren't surprised.
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>

acked + applied, thanks.