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Forgive my ignorance, but does having X amount of virtual memory allocated necessarily correspond to physical memory (and storage for that matter?)
by DigitalJack 9y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but does having X amount of virtual memory allocated necessarily correspond to physical memory (and storage for that matter?)
- tjoff 9y agoIt does not (but it is a big problem for 32 bit applications where you quickly run out of addressable memory).
- deathanatos 9y agoNo, it doesn't necessarily correspond. It could be an indicator, though. RSS would be more useful, IMO. That said, even if the poster is correct, it isn't necessarily wrong either. AFAICT, nothing stops JS on a page from allocating that much memory, and "leaking" it (e.g., holding on to the JS object, maybe accidentally in a giant list, and not making use of it). It isn't the browser's fault if JS is actually "using" that much RAM.
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