https://thebin.net/tags/ksm/Recent content in Ksm on the binHugoen-USThu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2011/03/linux-kvm-taking-advantage-of-memory-deduplication/Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2011/03/linux-kvm-taking-advantage-of-memory-deduplication/<p>Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) is essentially active memory deduplication.  What does this means for our KVM guests?  Basically the more similar guests we have running, the more of a memory footprint they share, which means less memory they actually hold.  These free pages can then be reutilized by the host to provide improved i/o through some of the caching that KVM does or by an increased capacity for other guests.</p>