Re: Virtual memory consumption (both user and kernel) in modern CURRENT

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:15:55PM +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:

Without putchar() call my program's virtual address space isn't so big:

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
52126 root 1 127 0 1244K 440K RUN 0:31 43.97% a.out

But with putchar() it gives us

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
58959 root 1 130 0 50100K 632K RUN 0:03 47.19% a.out

What't the reason of so terrible virtual memory consumption? I don't believe
that just plain stdio buffering requires 50 Mbytes (!) of virtual address
space.

Note that only 200K of extra memory is used. Using 50MB of virtual
address space is not going to cause any problems unless the pages are
touched, which as you can see from the resident size, they aren't.
See also the old "omg, rpc.statd has as size of 256MB" entry in the
FAQ.

Kris

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