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deathanatostoday at 1:50 AM1 replyview on HN

How does that work, realistically?

> Memory defaults to half of host memory

That's the most expensive part of the whole transaction, b/c AFAIK, RAM is then dedicated to the VM. It can be swapped out, I suppose, but that's not great.


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MBCooktoday at 3:45 AM

CGamesPlay said above its balloon memory so it won’t use all that memory by default, but it can’t release balloon memory yet.