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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: RE: Ballooning up
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:29:15 -0700
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 On 09/15/2010 12:10 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> Indeed.  I think adding general 32x limit between base and max size will
>> prevent a completely unusable system, and then just suggest using mem=
>> to control that more precisely (esp for dom0).
> Sounds reasonable.

I found 32x doesn't work; there seems to be a lot more per-page overhead
than I expected.  I made the limit 10x, which I determined empirically
and somewhat arbitrarily, but it does seem reasonable.

    J