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Thanks, RSS not counting memory for page tables themselves is a good point, I will correct that in the article tomorrow.
by matklad 6y ago
Thanks, RSS not counting memory for page tables themselves is a good point, I will correct that in the article tomorrow.
- labawi 6y agoNote that page tables are the per-process virtual memory mapping data structure for the CPU. AFAICT, Linux has separate accounting of the memory, which is smaller, but also per-thread structures, which are likely not included in RSS either.