What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm Date: September 2009 KernelVersion: 2.6.32 Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> Description: Interface for Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/full_scans What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_sharing What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_unshared What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_volatile What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs Date: September 2009 Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> Description: Kernel Samepage Merging daemon sysfs interface full_scans: how many times all mergeable areas have been scanned. pages_shared: how many shared pages are being used. pages_sharing: how many more sites are sharing them i.e. how much saved. pages_to_scan: how many present pages to scan before ksmd goes to sleep. pages_unshared: how many pages unique but repeatedly checked for merging. pages_volatile: how many pages changing too fast to be placed in a tree. run: write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled. write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running. write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. sleep_millisecs: how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between scans. See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information. What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes Date: January 2013 KernelVersion: 3.9 Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> Description: Control merging pages across different NUMA nodes. When it is set to 0 only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default).