How to Install and Uninstall ksmtuned Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "ksmtuned" package

This guide let you learn how to install ksmtuned on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall ksmtuned on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: ksmtuned
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kernel
Installed-Size: 63
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.20150325
Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), libc6 (>= 2.4)
Recommends: qemu-kvm
Filename: pool/universe/k/ksmtuned/ksmtuned_4.20150325_amd64.deb
Size: 7040
MD5sum: 8a3897da9955e8fa8645cc7ed70d46d2
SHA1: 9a9eb72474e12983a41b986240d6abe983a2458f
SHA256: a3e21ccae993b8f54497a07b08b90b74642c7231f47098025594ccd163fb6cce
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
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!qemu-kvm
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu