From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: Proxmox VE development discussion <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>,
"f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com" <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server] qcow2: increase cache-size to 1GB
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 10:20:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02a75d70-c11b-49b2-ae14-74f3f4a18c0b@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afb7881b-1e9d-4446-bf9e-5783902b90eb@proxmox.com>
Am 02.10.25 um 11:40 AM schrieb Fiona Ebner:
> Am 14.08.25 um 1:10 PM schrieb DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel:
>>>> we also know the image size here, so we could use a capped, derived
>>>> value?
>
> Yes, I'd also be in favor of using something calculated from the size.
> We could additionally add a drive configuration option to override the
> value if we really want to.
After sleeping over this, I think going the conservative route and
making this opt-in is the only sensible option outside of a major
release. Otherwise, we are bound to break somebody's setup, because
there surely are some setups with large enough VM disks, which cannot
handle additional gigabytes of memory consumption.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-13 13:46 Alexandre Derumier via pve-devel
2025-08-13 14:25 ` Fabian Grünbichler
2025-08-14 11:10 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
2025-08-14 14:14 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
2025-10-02 9:39 ` Fiona Ebner
2025-10-03 8:20 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
2025-10-03 14:05 ` DERUMIER, Alexandre via pve-devel
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