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A comment on Page Table Memory Consumption.

Re:Page Table Memory Consumption by Sopel on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:55PM (#49959214)
At least on windows zombie processes may use no memory but still keep >=32KiB page table. So in this [extreme case of an AMD iGPU driver bug](https://superuser.com/questions/1838566/how-to-identify-a-dr...) close to 100% of memory was used by page tables (or would if pushed far enough)
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Re:Page Table Memory Consumption by shellpipe on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:16PM (#49959354)
That's crazy! I appreciate you bringing this up. I will add this case as an interesting aside later.
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