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2010 Feb 11
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Enabling KSM with ksmctl under Centos 5.4
Are their any good guides out there on how to use ksmctl to enable and
tune KSM performance on Centos/RedHat
At the moment the only guidelines I can find are from the following OLS
paper, plus the Linux Kernel Docs.
* http://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2009/ols2009-pages-19-28.pdf
* http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt
On a basic dual core testbed with 4GB Ram and 4-5 VMs I've tried
ksmctl start 60 5000
This resulted in a 5% system cpu load as it tried to recover shared
space. Sadly I can't tell how well it is working as we don...