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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Drop qemuDomainMemoryLimit
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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
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On 19.08.2013 11:06, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:29:10AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> On 09.08.2013 18:29, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 10:58:55AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>> Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> [CC'ing qemu-devel list]
>>>>> On 09.08.2013 15:17, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 07:13:58AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>>>>> On 08/09/2013 06:56 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>>
>>
>> So what's the conclusion? Should I push the patch until qemu gets
>> stabilized in mem consumption (which can take a while - no offense to
>> qemu devels, I can imagine it's nontrivial).
> 
> Given the lack of any useful info to make memory limits work reliably,
> I guess we don't have any choice but to remove this default memory limit,
> and also recommend against people setting explicit memory limits too.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 

Okay, I've pushed the patch. And I've just proposed patch to discourage
users setting this limit:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-August/msg00820.html

Michal