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Page Table Memory Consumption

60 points · 10 comments · shellpipe

  1. Sopel · · focus · HN ↗
    At least on windows zombie processes may use no memory but still keep &gt;=32KiB page table. So in this [extreme case of an AMD iGPU driver bug](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1838566&#x2F;how-to-identify-a-driver-causing-every-exited-process-to-become-a-zombie-pollut&#x2F;1841517" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1838566&#x2F;how-to-identify-a-dr...) close to 100% of memory was used by page tables (or would if pushed far enough)
    1. shellpipe · · focus · HN ↗
      That&#x27;s crazy! I appreciate you bringing this up. I will add this case as an interesting aside later.

      Edit: added.

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