Thanks for the info Nullzone! Based on your data, I'm going to spend a bit of time running with:
# To disable qemu-kvm's page merging feature, set KSM_ENABLED=0 and # sudo restart qemu-kvm KSM_ENABLED=1 #SLEEP_MILLISECS=2000 SLEEP_MILLISECS=50 PAGES_TO_SCAN=100 in my /etc/default/qemu-kvm, and if [ -w /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan ]; then if [ -n "$PAGES_TO_SCAN" ]; then echo "$PAGES_TO_SCAN" > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan fi fi added to my /etc/init/qemu-kvm.conf I think upping sleep_millisec for Natty is a good idea. But not for Lucid+Maverick, it's just too late, and after all these are trivially changeable and really ought to be customized anyway. I also think (obviously) that adding KSM_PAGES_TO_SCAN to the list of variables which /etc/init/qemu-kvm can read seems worthwhile. However again I'm not sure whether I want to ask for a feature freeze exception for maverick for this. I personally think it's better to wait for Natty. Thierry, do you concur, or should I try for maverick? -- Lucid qemu-kvm: ksmd default config is CPU hog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578930 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs