fix(orchestrator): enable balloon DeflateOnOom to prevent guest OOM - #3665
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When the guest approaches its memory ceiling, the virtio-balloon was not automatically deflated to return previously reclaimed pages. This caused guest OOM kills even though the host could give pages back instantly by deflating the balloon. Set DeflateOnOom = true to enable automatic balloon deflation when the guest is under memory pressure. Fixes e2b-dev#3379
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Summary
When the guest approaches its memory ceiling, the virtio-balloon was not automatically deflated to return previously reclaimed pages. This caused guest OOM kills even though the host could give pages back instantly by deflating the balloon.
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DeflateOnOom = trueto enable automatic balloon deflation when the guest is under memory pressure. This is Gap 2 from issue #3379, which is the trivial fix among the three gaps identified.Related issue
Fixes #3379