[Libguestfs] [PATCH] v2v: Further increase memory allocated to the appliance (RHBZ#1418283).

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Feb 2 10:03:45 UTC 2017


On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:01:43AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 03:53:52PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > I guess pointing to LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE here could make it more
> > actionable on issues.
> 
> OK, I will tweak this documentation.

Actually I won't because there's not a direct link between
LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE and the amount of memory allocated.  Previously it
was allocating LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE * 8 / 5 (which I didn't realize when
I was suggesting the workaround), and now it's allocating
LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE * 20 / 5.

Rich.

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