[Users] Custom settings for Kernel Same-page Merging (KSM)?

Frank Wall fw at moov.de
Mon Nov 4 11:24:33 UTC 2013


Hi Martin,

On 2013-11-04 11:12, Martin Sivak wrote:
> we do not currently have anything in the engine that would allow you
> to do this. If you create an oVirt RFE bug for it it would make it
> easier for us to add the feature and track the progress.

good advice, here we go:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026294

I wasn't sure if I should file a bug for vdsmd or ovirt-engine,
so maybe someone needs to reclassify this PR.

> However you can update the policy file you found to accomplish this.
> Just set (defvar ksm_sleep_ms_baseline 10) to a higher value and do
> not forget to properly restart VDSM when you do.

Thanks, I've already thought of doing this as a temporary workaround,
but wanted to make sure that it's not customizable yet. So I'm going
to hardcode my preferred value on next maintenance.


Thanks
- Frank



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