ksm polling frequency far too aggressive
Bug #550985 reported by
Dustin Kirkland
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Dustin Kirkland |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: qemu-kvm
The default kernel same-page merging (KSM) polling frequency is set to 20 milliseconds. This is far too frequent (in my opinion).
A separate task should be opened against the kernel to ensure that the upstream default is sane.
But for now, let's change this to 2000ms when enabling KSM in the qemu-kvm upstart job. Note that an admin will be able to configure this in /etc/default/
Related branches
Changed in qemu-kvm (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
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This bug was fixed in the package qemu-kvm - 0.12.3+ noroms- 0ubuntu3
--------------- noroms- 0ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low
qemu-kvm (0.12.3+
* debian/ qemu-kvm. default, debian/ qemu-kvm. upstart:
raise the default sleep between kernel same-page merging
(KSM) from 20 milliseconds to 2000 milliseconds, LP: #550985
-- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:35:44 -0500