On Thu, 14 Jun 2018, Daniel Díaz wrote: > As per the documentation, Kernel Samepage Merging (available > since 2.6.32) is a memory-saving de-duplication feature, > enabled by CONFIG_KSM=y and activated via sysfs. More > information can be found here: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt > > When enabled in the kernel, the default is to not do anything > at all, until it is activated at run-time with: > echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
We all know that, but the above does not make an argument WHY this needs to be enabled in defconfig. Thanks, tglx