From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Host where KSM appears to save a negative amount of memory
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:52:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110822075246.GA2021@arachsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1108211155300.1252@sister.anvils>
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> writes:
> KSM chooses to show the numbers pages_shared and pages_sharing as
> exclusive counts: pages_sharing indicates the saving being made. So it
> would be perfectly reasonable to add those two numbers together to get
> the "total" number of pages sharing, the number you expected it to show;
> but it doesn't make sense to subtract shared from sharing.
Hi. Many thanks for your helpful and detailed explanation. I've fixed our
monitoring to correctly use just pages_sharing to measure the savings. I
think I just assumed the meanings of pages_shared and pages_sharing from
their names. This means that ksm has been saving even more memory than we
thought on our hosts in the past!
Best wishes,
Chris.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-21 8:56 Host where KSM appears to save a negative amount of memory Chris Webb
2011-08-21 19:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-08-21 19:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-08-22 7:52 ` Chris Webb [this message]
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