<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Memory on The Gnu Pit</title><link>https://gnupit.net/memory/</link><description>Recent content in Memory on The Gnu Pit</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:21:24 -0500</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://gnupit.net/memory/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Virtual Memory Overcommit Explained</title><link>https://gnupit.net/posts/virt_mem_overcommit/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:21:24 -0500</pubDate><guid>https://gnupit.net/posts/virt_mem_overcommit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ran across these posts today on virtual memory overcommit in linux. Interesting reading and I learned quite a few things.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/LinuxVMOvercommit"&gt;How Linux handles virtual memory overcommit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/MemoryOvercommit"&gt;Understanding the virtual memory overcommit issue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href="http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/People/ChrisSiebenmann"&gt;Chris Siebenmann&lt;/a&gt; for helping me to understand things a bit better.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Originally published 2012-06-16&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>