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by LegionMammal978 871 days ago
From the link:

> KSM only merges anonymous (private) pages, never pagecache (file) pages.

So it wouldn't be able to help with static libraries loaded from different executables. (At any rate, they'd have to be at the same alignment within the page, which is unlikely without some special linker configuration.)

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Had completely missed that line — great point!