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Posted by kdawson on Saturday April 17, 2010 @04:51PM from the culture-by-another-name dept.

An anonymous reader sends in an IBM DeveloperWorks backgrounder on Kernel Shared Memory in the 2.6.32 Linux kernel. KSM allows the hypervisor to increase the number of concurrent virtual machines by consolidating identical memory pages. The article covers the ideas behind KSM (such as storage de-duplication), its implementation, and how you manage it.

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Re:Linux is a joke (Score:3, Funny)

by icebraining ( 1313345 ) writes: on Saturday April 17, 2010 @07:15PM (#31884240) Homepage

I start daemons myself, you insensitive clod!

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