Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 12/06/2009 08:09 PM, malc wrote:
>
> Well, i don't have a swap...
>
> ~$ cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:       515708 kB
> MemFree:          3932 kB
> Buffers:         10120 kB
> Cached:         365320 kB
> SwapCached:          0 kB
> Active:         238120 kB
> Inactive:       222396 kB
> SwapTotal:           0 kB
> SwapFree:            0 kB
> ...
> CommitLimit:    464136 kB
> Committed_AS:   178920 kB
> ...
>    

Out of curiosity, what desktop and apps are you running?  Here firefox 
takes 1.3GB virt size and 377MB RSS, that alone could overwhelm your system.

[avi@firebolt qemu-kvm (master)]$ cat /proc/2698/status
Name:    firefox
State:    S (sleeping)
Tgid:    2698
Pid:    2698
PPid:    2686
TracerPid:    0
Uid:    500    500    500    500
Gid:    500    500    500    500
Utrace:    0
FDSize:    256
Groups:    500 502 512
VmPeak:     1478804 kB
VmSize:     1288100 kB
VmLck:           0 kB
VmHWM:      434788 kB
VmRSS:      386296 kB
VmData:      676384 kB
VmStk:         248 kB
VmExe:          88 kB
VmLib:       62504 kB
VmPTE:        2312 kB


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