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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: OOM policy, overcommit control, and soft limits
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> 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