Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends

[malc]

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 12/06/2009 08:09 PM, malc wrote:
> > 
> > Well, i don't have a swap...
> > 
> > ~$ cat /proc/meminfo
> > MemTotal:       515708 kB
> > MemFree:          3932 kB
> > Buffers:         10120 kB
> > Cached:         365320 kB
> > SwapCached:          0 kB
> > Active:         238120 kB
> > Inactive:       222396 kB
> > SwapTotal:           0 kB
> > SwapFree:            0 kB
> > ...
> > CommitLimit:    464136 kB
> > Committed_AS:   178920 kB
> > ...
> >    
> 
> Out of curiosity, what desktop and apps are you running?  Here firefox takes
> 1.3GB virt size and 377MB RSS, that alone could overwhelm your system.

Most of the time my setup is:

IceWM - 4 virtual desktops
XEmacs
Seamonkey 1.1.16
IceDock
A bunch of rxvts

> 
> address@hidden qemu-kvm (master)]$ cat /proc/2698/status
> Name:    firefox
> State:    S (sleeping)
> Tgid:    2698
> Pid:    2698
> PPid:    2686
> TracerPid:    0
> Uid:    500    500    500    500
> Gid:    500    500    500    500
> Utrace:    0
> FDSize:    256
> Groups:    500 502 512
> VmPeak:     1478804 kB
> VmSize:     1288100 kB
> VmLck:           0 kB
> VmHWM:      434788 kB
> VmRSS:      386296 kB
> VmData:      676384 kB
> VmStk:         248 kB
> VmExe:          88 kB
> VmLib:       62504 kB
> VmPTE:        2312 kB
> 

~$ cat /proc/$(pidof seamonkey-bin)/status
Name:   seamonkey-bin
State:  S (sleeping)
Tgid:   2332
Pid:    2332
PPid:   1
TracerPid:      0
Uid:    1000    1000    1000    1000
Gid:    100     100     100     100
FDSize: 256
Groups: 10 11 17 18 19 100 
VmPeak:   151848 kB
VmSize:   150976 kB
VmLck:         0 kB
VmHWM:     57032 kB
VmRSS:     56260 kB
VmData:   105740 kB
VmStk:        84 kB
VmExe:       296 kB
VmLib:     34472 kB
VmPTE:       136 kB
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