[Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/2] increase the default memory size to 768 MB

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 08:51:56PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote:
> The appliance memory size of 500 MB is insufficient in certain scenarios.  In
> partiuclar, semodule (which may be called by a guest tools uninstaller) often
> triggers OOM (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/426775)
> 
> Increase it to 768 MB.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin at virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>  src/guestfs-internal.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/guestfs-internal.h b/src/guestfs-internal.h
> index 03f1034..1d1b996 100644
> --- a/src/guestfs-internal.h
> +++ b/src/guestfs-internal.h
> @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
>  
>  /* The default and minimum memory size for most users. */
>  #ifndef DEFAULT_MEMSIZE
> -#  define DEFAULT_MEMSIZE 500
> +#  define DEFAULT_MEMSIZE 768
>  #endif
>  #ifndef MIN_MEMSIZE
>  #  define MIN_MEMSIZE 128

If only we had a more sensible way to allocate memory :-(

Anyway, this patch needs to remove the earlier lines which set
DEFAULT_MEMSIZE to 768 on __powerpc__ and __aarch64__.

Rich.

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