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"J.O. Aho" <
user@example.net> writes:
> Then your plasmashell is using 250MB at the moment, the VSZ is a in
> theory amount of RAM the process would use if it had to load
> everything at once, but as you ain`t using all the features of
> plasmahsell this will not happen.
On a 64-bit Linux, VSZ is often way more than the RAM a process could
possibly use. Each shared library has a 2MB PROT_NONE mapping that
contributes to VSZ but can never consume any RAM, and GUI processses
often have huge numbers of shared libraries so this can easily reach
into the hundreds of megabytes.
See
https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/tech/dataseg.html for discussion.
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