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Comment by pmontra

> However, mmap has other uses too. It's commonly used to allocate large regions of memory for applications.

Slack is allocating 1132 GB of virtual memory on my laptop right now. I don't know if they are using mmap but that's 1100 GB more than the physical memory.

parent pmontra 2 years ago

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