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Besides ZFS, VMware Workstation on Linux also interacts badly with transparent huge pages: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/679706/kcompacd0-using-100-c

• fps_doug 4y ago
  Had that problem too, and it's not the first time VMware was hit. My "tune for vmware" script has grown to three lines over the years: echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compaction_proactiveness # default 20