How to Install and Uninstall ksmtuned Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "ksmtuned" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install ksmtuned on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

Learn how to uninstall ksmtuned on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: ksmtuned
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.20150326
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kernel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 43
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Recommends: qemu-kvm
Filename: pool/universe/k/ksmtuned/ksmtuned_4.20150326_amd64.deb
Size: 7444
MD5sum: 0eb3aead51ec7bd2e0790280e5238240
SHA1: 959fafddcda33767ae87fd43c9ec33bd914e4ca0
SHA256: a7303cb304c67c1f2ad72bbc98befdd4f4a886c94677714bd859e74008b3f483
SHA512: 5f4aaeb954a25ad34ed97701f24b1124afbbbde1c14ee85344aae6ac6db57e08153ea37405455ec76582d4aa9603e1b094c8c6145b2fb4aa501f93d355dfcbec
Homepage: https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!qemu-kvm
Description-en: 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: cee1adf287c9c4d1367b2f4deb20fdf0