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Clarify instructions on balloon driver.
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source/includes/extracts-production-notes-base.yaml

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applications, which can interfere with MongoDB's memory management and
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affect MongoDB's performance.
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You can disable the balloon driver and {{software}}'s memory overcommitment
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feature to mitigate these problems. However, disabling the balloon driver
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can cause the hypervisor to use its swap, as there is no other available
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mechanism to perform the memory reclamation. Accessing data in swap
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is much slower than accessing data in memory, which can in turn affect
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performance. Instead of disabling the balloon driver and memory
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overcommitment features, map and reserve the full amount of memory for
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Do not disable the balloon driver and memory overcommitment features. This can cause the hypervisor to use its swap which can, in turn, affect performance.
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Instead, map and reserve the full amount of memory for
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the virtual machine running MongoDB. This ensures that the balloon
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will not be inflated in the local operating system if there is memory
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pressure in the hypervisor due to an overcommitted configuration.

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