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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>is the ksm control daemon running (‘ksmtuned’)?, If not, start
with:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'># /etc/init.d/ksmtuned start<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>- Dietmar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>
pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Fred Supinski<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Montag, 28. Dezember 2009 22:56<br>
<b>To:</b> pve-user@pve.proxmox.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PVE-User] KSM not working?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>As
an additional note, I am running 8 VMs on this box. 4x Ubuntu 9.10
Server, 3x Windows Server 2003, and 1x Windows XP.<br>
<br>
-Fred<br>
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Fred Supinski wrote on 12/28/2009 2:31 PM: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hi
Dietmar,<br>
<br>
That doesn't appear to be the issue:<br>
vm0:/# free<br>
total
used free
shared buffers cached<br>
Mem: 8180404
8129008
51396
0 95952 2316360<br>
-/+ buffers/cache: 5716696 2463708<br>
Swap: 7340024
1135688 6204336<br>
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Anything else I should try checking out?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
-<br>
Fred<br>
</span><br>
-------- Original Message --------<br>
Subject: Re: [PVE-User] KSM not working?<br>
From: Dietmar Maurer <a href="mailto:dietmar@proxmox.com"><dietmar@proxmox.com></a><br>
To: Fred Supinski <a href="mailto:fred@vmu.ca"><fred@vmu.ca></a>,
proxmoxve <a href="mailto:pve-user@pve.proxmox.com"><pve-user@pve.proxmox.com></a><br>
Date: Mon Dec 28 2009 14:05:34 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>KSM only starts when you use more than half of your physical
memory.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>- Dietmar</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a
href="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com">pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com</a>
[<a href="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com">mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Fred Supinski<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Montag, 28. Dezember 2009 19:00<br>
<b>To:</b> proxmoxve<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PVE-User] KSM not working?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I
have just started testing KSM and it doesn't appear to be working on my
server. ( 0 shared pages )<br>
<br>
I have verified that the kernel is configured to boot with the option enabled,
and I show the ksmd process running.<br>
<br>
vm0:/# pveversion -v<br>
pve-manager: 1.5-1 (pve-manager/1.5/4561)<br>
running kernel: 2.6.32-1-pve<br>
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.5-2<br>
pve-kernel-2.6.32-1-pve: 2.6.32-2<br>
pve-kernel-2.6.24-9-pve: 2.6.24-18<br>
pve-kernel-2.6.24-8-pve: 2.6.24-16<br>
qemu-server: 1.1-10<br>
pve-firmware: 1.0-2<br>
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-6<br>
vncterm: 0.9-2<br>
vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve3<br>
vzdump: 1.2-5<br>
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2<br>
vzquota: 3.0.11-1<br>
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.11.1-1<br>
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-1<br>
<br>
Any ideas of what I might need to do to get it working?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Fred</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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