Kernel Samepage merging

[tomp (Thomas Parrott)]

I found this past post which may be of interest:

Running KSM on linux containers

Recently I’ve been doing an experiment to check the effectiveness of KSM(Kernel Same-page Merging) on containers I followed through the instructions of this tutorial I successfully built the ksm_preload tool and enabling it in the /etc/rc.local (I’m using ubuntu container) in the container and then I tried $ sudo ./ksm-wrapper lxc start container1 to launch multiple containers and check /sys/kernel/mm/ksm, but only full_scans has increased, the other remained unchange. there’s a guy claimed …

@amikhalitsyn is the mount that @gabrielmougard suggested above a security concern?