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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:03:34 +0100 (BST)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: /proc/pid/status -> VmLib: 4294948464 kB
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Marcos David wrote:
> Hi,
> I=C2=B4m using RedHat Enterprise Server 4 Update 3 (kernel 2.6.9-34.ELsmp=
)
>=20
> I was listing the contents of /proc/pid/status file and I came up with
> a value of:
> ...
> VmLib: 4294948464 kB,
> ...
>=20
> Is this a known bug?
> the process in question uses a lot of threads ~100 but there are no
> memory leaks...
>=20
> Any help would be appreciated.

Yes, it's known, I sent two patches to fix it
=09[PATCH] VmLib wrapped: executable brk
=09[PATCH] VmLib wrapped: mprotect flags
on 28 Nov 2004, and those were included in 2.6.10.

It's just an ugliness in the numbers shown, doesn't affect how the
kernel runs: so Red Hat have not bothered to fix it in their update.

Hugh
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