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