Zev Weiss wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 06:09:36AM CST, Howard Chu wrote: >> It's not tying up a bunch of memory. It's using up some address space, but >> if it is indeed >> unused, the OS will not dedicate any actual RAM to that address space. >> > > Andreas's initial message showed a pretty large difference in top's RES > column -- wouldn't that indicate that that virtual address space is in fact > backed by > actual allocated physical pages?
It also showed that there was still 140MB free RAM out of a total of 390MB. There was no memory pressure to cause the OS to reclaim those pages. Look at the big picture, not just a single detail. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
