linux-kernel - Re: size of swapped-out part of the process

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Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:14:57 +0100
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To:	"Victoria Muntean" <vikimun@...il.com>
Cc:	"Hugh Dickins" <hugh@...itas.com>,
	"Kernel Linux" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: size of swapped-out part of the process

"Victoria Muntean" <vikimun@...il.com> 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.

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