Why does the browser process not run out of physical memory when allocating 3-16Tbytes of virtual memory?
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Shared mappings basically. From Mark: "the browser process is just repeatedly mapping the *same* pages of memory, so the actual [physical] memory overhead is minimal (PTEs, I guess). I also use hugepage size mappings to reduce the PTE overhead."
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Ohhhhh nice :)))
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