On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >>> +The KSM daemon >>> +.RI ( ksmd ) >>> +periodically scans those areas of user memory that have >>> +been marked as mergeable, >>> +looking for pages with identical content. >> >> I was rather puzzled by Andi calling that an internal implementation >> detail. Okay, I suppose the "KSM daemon periodically scans" is an >> internal implementation detail, though I think it helps to warn the >> programmer of the overhead of MADV_MERGEABLE; but without "pages >> with identical content", aren't we left mystified as to just what >> this "merging" is all about? > > I agree. All I had changed was to remove mention of the KSM daemon -- > I just say "the kernel". Great, that's just right: thanks. Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
