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Hi, This is a very very strange thing I have seen in Linux Kernel. I wrote a simple program, all it does is to load a file into memory. This programming is running on a virtual machine while linux-kvm is working as the hypervisor. I enabled ksm in the hypervisor level, my host machine was installed with a Opensuse11.4 while the guest OS is Fedora14, the strange thing is, whenever I run following

Hi, This is a very very strange thing I have seen in Linux Kernel. I wrote a simple program, all it does is to load a file into memory. This programming is running on a virtual machine while linux-kvm is working as the hypervisor. I enabled ksm in the hypervisor level, my host machine was installed with a Opensuse11.4 while the guest OS is Fedora14, the strange thing is, whenever I run following

Hi list, the IBM developerWorks article (*1) about KSM (kernel samepage merging) states that "XEN calls it Memory CoW". Now I''ve searched a bit forward and backward but was unable to find any information about such a feature within XEN. Can you enlight me? Regards, Markus *1: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kernel-shared- mem...