Enable KSM (Kernel Same-page Merging) on Fedora

Published on 2019-03-28 Author admin

By default KSM is not installed on Fedora.
To install it:

dnf install ksmtuned

Start service:

systemctl start ksm
systemctl start ksmtuned.service

enable KSM:

echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run

checkk KSM status:

cat /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run

check number of shared memory pages:

cat /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared