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From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: problems getting KSM running on newer 2.6.32.x kernels
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:02:17 +0200
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On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:51:47 +0200
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 02/01/2010 12:37 PM, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> > Hello,
> > it seems to me that after upgrading to some 2.6.32.x release, KSM stopped working
> > for me. I'm not exactly sure which update did this, but enabling KSM doesn't
> > seem to do anything, ksmd process just sleeps and doesn't merge any memory.
> > Early 2.6.32 versions worked correctly for me, now I'm using 2.6.32.7 and qemu-kvm-0.12.2.
> >
> > I'm enabling it using:
> >
> > echo 262144>  /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan
> > echo 100>  /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs
> > echo 1>  /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run

Is it happen to you just in 2.6.32.x? what happen with 2.6.33.x?

I have tested it on 2.6.33.x and it seems to work...

> >
> >    
> 
> Izik?
>