A quick test (so take it with a grain of salt): Huge pages is slightly faster than not using huge pages (~10% with 4 winxp virtual machines copying 512MB from one memory location to another). KSM is slightly slower then not using KSM (~5% with 4 winxp virtual machines copying 512MB from one memory location [...]
Comparing Linux huge memory pages & Kernel Samepage Merging for KVM virtualization
by Jason L Froebe on April 7, 2011, no comments
