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slaurel

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Registered: 2018-01-29

Posts: 4

[SOLVED} Surf browser and virtual memory

If I run suckless's surf browser and then look at htop, I see 85.6G and 98G multiple times under the VIRT field, all referencing /usr/lib/WebKitProcess 3 18.
I don't know much but something tells me this can't be right.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks

Last edited by slaurel (2019-02-05 14:36:56)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED} Surf browser and virtual memory

See the same. Please notice that "virtual memory" is not some occupied RAM but the addressable space.
This can happen very easy and quick and w/o even loading a single MB into RAM or burden your system in any way.

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slaurel

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Registered: 2018-01-29

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Re: [SOLVED} Surf browser and virtual memory

[SOLVED]
Thanks for taking the time to reply, Seth. Since as you say it doesn't seem to burden the system, I'll ignore it.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: [SOLVED} Surf browser and virtual memory

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).