On the laptop I'm writing this from, I've got a Chrome process with 827 MB of VM size -- but only 62 MB of pages actually in use. The rest is large memory-mapped regions consisting mostly of untouched pages -- which makes sense, because on a 64-bit machine, virtual address space is practically free.
On the laptop I'm writing this from, I've got a Chrome process with 827 MB of VM size -- but only 62 MB of pages actually in use. The rest is large memory-mapped regions consisting mostly of untouched pages -- which makes sense, because on a 64-bit machine, virtual address space is practically free.