docs: Mention a common pitfall in ballooning
authorGeorge Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:09:19 +0000 (17:09 +0000)
committerIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:45:53 +0000 (10:45 +0000)
commitb77a66fc7854e6aaba82395cca31a13b7c2c0f51
treebcfca97f0f788b980c2aed7b6aa5f56263dd551c
parentd4ea77c9d7b314001ff4e2eb7618b45f11551371
docs: Mention a common pitfall in ballooning

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-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5