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		pjc50 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everything old is new again: memory optimization And how does that breakdown in vmmap? I'm guessing that's working set vs. the whole virtual memory allocation (which is definitely always an overestimate and not the same as RAM)

wild_egg 35 days ago [–]

Virtual memory doesn't matter at all. It's virtual. You can take 2TB of address space, use 5MB of it, and nothing on the system cares.

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