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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 4 - Page Sharing HowTo?

To: Nick Couchman <Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen 4 - Page Sharing HowTo?
From: Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:26:49 +0100
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On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Nick Couchman <Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>> One of the features listed as having been added to Xen 4 is page sharing for 
>> HVM domUs.  I was wondering if 1) this is automatic, or something that must 
>> be enabled, and 2) if it must be enabled, how do you go about enabling it?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Nick
>
> See 
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-changelog/2009-12/msg00192.html
>
> The setting you need to add is memory_sharing
>
> I think it may require hap but I am not sure yet.. just about to test it.
>
> Andy
>

I added memory_sharing=1 to two hvm guests and started them up, xm log
shows that the setting was applied but there seems to be no change in
the reported memory usage, is there any way to monitor shared memory
performance?

Andy

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