How to Install and Uninstall ksmtuned Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "ksmtuned" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install ksmtuned on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                ksmtuned
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "ksmtuned" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall ksmtuned on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                ksmtuned
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ksmtuned package on Kali Linux

Package: ksmtuned
Source: ksmtuned (4.20150326)
Version: 4.20150326+b1
Installed-Size: 44
Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Recommends: qemu-kvm
Size: 7248
SHA256: 502ac1b4f49e76012eec0b63c956612cea0c1df6525a27bf17ea4946267f1c1e
SHA1: f2c1ca1cb4686380b261d17ae53f15ddd6961fc9
MD5sum: e314e2bd4dbe1b09edb2d8b09dea1b89
Description: enables and tunes Kernel Samepage Merging
This package ships the ksm and ksmtuned services to control
Kernel Samepage Merging. KSM is a memory-saving de-duplication
feature, that merges anonymous (private) pages (not pagecache ones).
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While the ksm service is only able to start and stop the KSM kernel
thread, ksmtuned controls and tunes KSM according to the used memory
of running qemu KVM instances.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!qemu-kvm
Section: kernel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/k/ksmtuned/ksmtuned_4.20150326+b1_amd64.deb