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Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory

Posted by kdawson on from the culture-by-another-name dept.

An anonymous reader sends in an IBM DeveloperWorks backgrounder on Kernel Shared Memory in the 2.6.32 Linux kernel. KSM allows the hypervisor to increase the number of concurrent virtual machines by consolidating identical memory pages. The article covers the ideas behind KSM (such as storage de-duplication), its implementation, and how you manage it.

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  1. This Is Just One Reason ... by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... why OSS is the way things should be. You'll never see this type of documentation, and this type of detail, available to anyone and everyone from closed source software. I love my Mac, and supporting Windows pays my bills, but OSS is unlike any other animal out there.