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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'theres a whole load of yak in here....'" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: FW: question: high virtual memory usage
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SERRANOXmapMHFVsTUN0000003f@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)

----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 14 June 2005 10:36

> ----Original Message----
>> From: Brian Dessent
>> Sent: 14 June 2005 03:23
> 
>> Procexp's "virtual size" column seems to be a meaningless number that
>> procexp somehow arrives at.
> 
>   It's the amount of reserved-but-not-yert-committed memory.
> 


  "Yurt-commmitted" memory, of course, is that portion of the process memory
space reserved for tracking the movements of nomadic mongolian tents;
apologies for mis-speeling it.  D'oh!




    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

             reply	other threads:[~2005-06-14 12:15 UTC|newest]

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2005-06-14 13:42 Dave Korn [this message]
2005-06-14 18:36 ` One Angry User

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