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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: Pointed questions re Xen memory overcommit
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:38:39 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 29, Dan Magenheimer wrote:

> > From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olaf@aepfle.de]
> > Then I think that not all guests are capable enough to contribute their
> > free pages. And if host memory is low, then things like swapping can
> > solve the problem at hand.
> 
> Yes, as George points out, there will always be legacy guests
> for which swapping can solve a problem.

So thats the motivation.


Olaf