Bug 587137

Summary: S84ksm: max_kernel_pages: no such file or directory
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: hk63a
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 6.0CC: notting, virt-maint
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Description hk63a 2010-04-29 03:03:15 UTC 
Description of problem:

From /var/log/boot.log
Starting ksm: /etc/rc5.d/S84ksm: line 44: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/max_kernel_pages: No such file or directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.17.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:

Boot system. Above message viewable in boot.log or on console

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot
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Actual results:
Above message is displayed.

Expected results:
ksm service starts successfully

Additional info:

rhel6 run from inside Vbox 3.1.6

/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/max_kernel_pages does not exist.

[test@rhel6 ~]$ ls -l /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/max_kernel_pages
ls: cannot access /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/max_kernel_pages: No such file or directory
[test@rhel6 ~]$
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2010-04-29 03:17:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 561907 ***