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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alan Jenkins <aj504@cs.york.ac.uk>
Cc: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM policy, overcommit control, and soft limits
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 16:23:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080531162341.4e183a09@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3849b91c-cfca-4126-b14b-aa6d2b4b10b3@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>

> In other words, I reckon I have on the order of a gigabyte of virtual
> address space, which has been malloc'ed or equivalent, but is not used
> and therefore requires no memory resource (ram or swap).

No need to reckon. The committed_as in the proc file should give a rough
value.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-31 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <azwvH-5QW-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-05-31 12:48 ` OOM policy, overcommit control, and soft limits Alan Jenkins
2008-05-31 15:23   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-31 16:45     ` Alan Jenkins
2008-05-31 10:27 Chris Frey
2008-05-31 13:15 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-31 16:41 ` Andrea Righi

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