Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754526AbYKQVPU (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:15:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751714AbYKQVPF (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:15:05 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47150 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751668AbYKQVPE (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:15:04 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: "Victoria Muntean" Cc: "Hugh Dickins" , "Kernel Linux" Subject: Re: size of swapped-out part of the process References: X-Yow: I was making donuts and now I'm on a bus! Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:14:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Victoria Muntean's message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:42:09 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 778 Lines: 20 "Victoria Muntean" writes: > Can you possibly explain what types of pages create "VSZ>>RSZ" > effect in total absence of swapping and plenty of free memory ? Any mapping that hasn't been touched yet. A page that is never read nor written will never become resident. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/