ksmd - what is expected behavior?

[Tom London]

I'm running Rawhide with a qemu-kvm VM that runs WinXP.

I'm noticing 'ksmd' running at a constant 15-25% of my cpu, for example:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
   32 root      25   5     0    0    0 S 21.2  0.0   2:06.75 ksmd
 2265 tbl       20   0 1227m 530m 8256 R 17.2 13.5   3:09.05 qemu-kvm
 1599 root      20   0  220m  42m  17m S  5.3  1.1   0:55.02 Xorg
 2203 tbl       20   0 1234m  62m  24m S  5.0  1.6   0:28.93 rhythmbox

Checking, I see that "ksmd" is running, but "ksmtuned" is not.

System is Thinkpad X200 with 4GB RAM.  VM image is configured at 512MB.

Is this "to be expected" behavior?

tom
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Tom London