From 60a545fa685c1083cb1a430ece2a0f8fabc0586a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Denemark Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:00:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Warn against locked memory limit too high https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046833 Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark --- docs/formatdomain.html.in | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in index f660aa685c..b0b2f82ee0 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in @@ -862,8 +862,11 @@ be allowed to swap them out. For QEMU/KVM this requires hard_limit memory tuning element to be used and set to the maximum memory configured for the - domain plus any memory consumed by the QEMU process itself. - Since 1.0.6 + domain plus any memory consumed by the QEMU process itself. Beware of + setting the memory limit too high (and thus allowing the domain to lock + most of the host's memory). Doing so may be dangerous to both the + domain and the host itself since the host's kernel may run out of + memory. Since 1.0.6