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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 now available by rwmj on Thursday November 11, 2010 @04:03AM (#1893355)
Yes. In fact KSM can be used on any Linux process although you have to mark the regions that can be merged with a special mmap flag. It works well with VMs because they basically mmap a huge chunk of sequential memory (for the VM's RAM) which is marked thus.

Edit: madvise, not mmap.

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