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Old 02-06-2012, 02:58 AM   #1
mahmoodn
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committed memory is much much more than limit


Can someone explain why the committed memory is much more that the limit and total physical ram?

Code:
mahmood@n1:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       66108396 kB
MemFree:        50265064 kB
Buffers:               0 kB
Cached:           403164 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:         14470564 kB
Inactive:         109088 kB
Active(anon):   14179068 kB
Inactive(anon):        0 kB
Active(file):     291496 kB
Inactive(file):   109088 kB
Unevictable:       13228 kB
Mlocked:           13228 kB
SwapTotal:             0 kB
SwapFree:              0 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:      14190380 kB
Mapped:            26976 kB
Shmem:               244 kB
Slab:              37160 kB
SReclaimable:      12396 kB
SUnreclaim:        24764 kB
KernelStack:        3656 kB
PageTables:        33888 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:    33054196 kB
Committed_AS:   160452848 kB
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:      383056 kB
VmallocChunk:   34308529128 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
DirectMap4k:        8896 kB
DirectMap2M:     3135488 kB
DirectMap1G:    63963136 kB
What does it mean? is it good or bad?
 
Old 02-07-2012, 11:54 AM   #2
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I'd say it was swap, but you don't appear to have any swap (SwapTotal 0).

So I look at the documentation. meminfo documentation take 2 [LWN.net] Committed_AS is some theoretical estimate of how much memory you might need, worst case. It does not reflect an actual current usage.

That page doesn't mention CommitLimit though.
 
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