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authorMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2015-10-15 17:08:36 +0200
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2015-10-30 09:05:38 +0100
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docs: Document QMP event rate limiting
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1444921716-9511-8-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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@@ -175,6 +175,11 @@ The format of asynchronous events is:
For a listing of supported asynchronous events, please, refer to the
qmp-events.txt file.
+Some events are rate-limited to at most one per second. If additional
+"similar" events arrive within one second, all but the last one are
+dropped, and the last one is delayed. "Similar" normally means same
+event type. See qmp-events.txt for details.
+
2.5 QGA Synchronization
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