16 Mar
2010
16 Mar
'10
1:36 p.m.
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 11:16 +0100, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
If I display a process map of an active imap process, I have: mapped: 2656K writeable/private: 460K shared: 300K Essentially you are talking about 460KB of KSM-able data.
IMHO, all modern Unix-alike system just "map" code pages read-only into the process and share them among all processes. No KSM required at all.
Right. Code and mmaped pages (e.g. some of Dovecot index files) are shared already. There's very little (if any) data that KSM could de-duplicate.