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Re:Everything old is new again: memory optimization by Capricorn2481 on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:49AM (#47542642)
But I have sublime text open with a hundred files and it's using 12mb.
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Re:Everything old is new again: memory optimization by pjc50 on Friday March 27, 2026 @11:43AM (#47544170)
And how does that breakdown in vmmap? I'm guessing that's working set vs. the whole virtual memory allocation (which is definitely always an overestimate and not the same as RAM)
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Re:Everything old is new again: memory optimization by wild_egg on Friday March 27, 2026 @04:15PM (#47547657)
Virtual memory doesn't matter at all. It's virtual. You can take 2TB of address space, use 5MB of it, and nothing on the system cares.
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