Re: memory allocation: smap large "Size", but unused

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Bernd Schubert wrote:

> I'm just investigating why a user space program has a rather large VmSize, but
> small VmRSS size. Looking into /proc/$pid/smaps I notice several areas with an
> size of about 64MB, but otherwise that area is unused. So far I did not find a
> way how to reproduce that with malloc() calls.
> 
> 7ffd34021000-7ffd38000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
> Size:              65404 kB
> Rss:                   0 kB

What happens if you do

	sbrk(65404 << 10);
	sleep(1000);

and check /proc/pid/smaps?  Ah, a memory range need not have any pages in 
memory.
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