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Re:Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform l... by mochomocha on Monday July 17, 2023 @02:17PM (#36761931)
Slightly off topic, but regarding the larger memory footprint of Kata containers, what is your opinion on KSM effectiveness in general for VMs?
Re:Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform l... by rwmj on Monday July 17, 2023 @02:34PM (#36762139)
We had a lot of reports of ksm/ksmtuned consuming a lot of CPU and not making a lot of difference. I think it works well for certain workloads, and can be quite pessimal for others. There are also security concerns because you can leak information about (eg) what glibc is being used by another tenant using timing attacks. So you'd probably want to turn it off if multiple tenants can be using a single node.