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?
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