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by Animux 3160 days ago
Doesn't this enable ksm, instead of disabling it like the article suggests?

  echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
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I think you're right. From the documentation [1]:

  set 0 to stop ksmd from running but keep merged pages,
  set 1 to run ksmd e.g. "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run",
  set 2 to stop ksmd and unmerge all pages currently merged,
      but leave mergeable areas registered for next run
  Default: 0 (must be changed to 1 to activate KSM,
             except if CONFIG_SYSFS is disabled)
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt