On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Tobias Zimmerman wrote:
How does
the OS determine what to allocate for the VSIZE.
You'll get a better answer on the darwin-dev mailing list, but
basically, the VSIZE is the total amount of VM address space
allocated, which includes shared pages (typically sha
On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:19 PM, Tobias Zimmerman wrote:
I am grateful to everyone who has responded, and, as I expected,
many concur
that VSIZE is a (largely) meaningless statistic. However, I am
still not
entirely satisfied with the answer to my first question, which is:
How does
the OS det
>
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
> >>
> >> For example, an application's VSIZE might be growing over time
> >> because it is
> >> mmap()'ing a bunch of files (or a few small files). If the app
> >> fails to
> >> unmap, the VSIZE will grow and the app may likely exhaus
