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I would say that for any modern unix implementation mmaped pages are quite significant, as all the read-only copies of libc code, other shared libraries and various mmaped data files (iconv tables, locales, terminfo, gettext catalogs…) are not exactly small.


Which is why disabling swap in the hopes of preventing the system grinding to a halt on out-of-memory doesn't work, and actually makes things worse.




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