On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:58:39PM -0400, sean darcy wrote: > I'm running kvm on F14. I'm running 2 XP clones. The ksm and ksmtuned > demons are running. > > Yet: > > for ii in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/* ; do echo -n "$ii: " ; cat $ii ; done > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/full_scans: 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared: 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_sharing: 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan: 100 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_unshared: 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_volatile: 266200 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run: 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs: 20 > > And yes, I've echo'd 1 to sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run, but it gets reset to > 0 after about a minute (ksmtuned at work?). > > When does ksm do its stuff? This is a pretty big machine (16G). Does > it wait until there's memory pressure?
Yes, ksmtuned does exactly that. If you prefer to control ksm/run yourself, you can shut this service down. _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
