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Starting from Linux v6.9, DAMON provides DAMOS quota auto-tuning. It allows users to set a target metric and value. Then, DAMOS will adjust its aggressiveness (effective quota) to achieve the target. damo users can also use the feature using --damos_quota_goal option. But apparently the usage is not well documented. Maybe it should be documented somewhere on USAGE.md of damo, but I cannot find a good splot for now. So I’m explaining the usage in more informal way on this post....

I just made a DAMON logo using DAMON, like below. $ git clone https://github.com/sjp38/masim && cd masim $ cat damon_pixel_2 11111111 11 11 111111 11111111 11 11 11111111 11111111 1111 11111111 11111111 11 11 11111111 11111111 1111 11111111 $ ./pixels_to_access_config.py ./damon_pixel_2 $((100*1024*1024)) 300 damon.cfg $ sudo damo record "./masim ./configs/stairs.cfg" $ sudo damo report heatmap --output damon.png The output is below: The cropped one:

This post provides lists of publications and presentations that cover DAMON. Featured Publications and Talks There are quite amount of publications and talks. Below are featured ones for people who unsure what among the resources to use. Academic papers For people who more familiar to academic papers, DAMON papers for Middleware'19 Industry and HPDC'22 are recommended to read and/or cite. The paper for Middleware'19 covers DAMON’s monitoring mechanisms and access pattern profiling-guided optimizations....

Below is a list of news around DAMON project. This list is not exhaustive but just a DAMON maintainer’s collection of news. If you find a news that should be added to this list, please let us know at sj@kernel.org and/or damon@lists.linux.dev. 2026 2026-02-17: LSF/MM/BPF topic for extending DAMON for per-CPUs/threads/reads/writes monitoring is proposed. 2026-02-16: DAMON yearly retrospect for 2024 has posted. 2026-02-10: An LSF/MM/BPF topic proposal for DAMON-based access-aware Transparent Hugepages is posted....

This document helps you estimating the amount of benefit that you could get from DAMON-based system optimizations, and describes how you could achieve it. Check The Signs No optimization can provide same extent of benefit to every case. Therefore you should first guess how much improvements you could get using DAMON. If some of below conditions match your situation, you could consider using DAMON. Low IPC and High Cache Miss Ratios....

DAMON is lightweight. It increases system memory usage by 0.39% and slows target workloads down by 1.16%. DAMON is accurate and useful for memory management optimizations. An experimental DAMON-based operation scheme for THP, namely ’ethp’, removes 76.15% of THP memory overheads while preserving 51.25% of THP speedup. Another experimental DAMON-based ‘proactive reclamation’ implementation, namely ‘prcl’, reduces 93.38% of residential sets and 23.63% of system memory footprint while incurring only 1.22% runtime overhead in the best case (parsec3/freqmine)....

A summary of DAMON development in 2022 has posted: https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20221229171209.162356-1-sj@kernel.org/ 2022 was a year of active and healthy DAMON development. Seven new DAMON major features were delivered to users. Some of those were featured in articles and academic papers. It was possible thanks to the DAMON community. The community has expanded with its own mailing list and an open bi-weekly chat series. 40 people contributed their great code to DAMON via making their 275 commits merged into the mainline....