[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: Warn against locked memory limit too high

[Erik Skultety]

On 28/06/16 14:01, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046833
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com>
> ---
>  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 f660aa6..b0b2f82 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
>          <code>hard_limit</code> <a href="#elementsMemoryTuning">memory tuning</a>
>          element to be used and set to the maximum memory configured for the
> -        domain plus any memory consumed by the QEMU process itself.
> -        <span class="since">Since 1.0.6</span></dd>
> +        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. <span class="since">Since 1.0.6</span></dd>
>      </dl>
>  
>  
> 

ACK

Erik