Tag: working set size

• The cost of soft/minor faults

  Here is a complete graph of the memory use and fault count for a run of ls -lia. As you can see there are only soft/minor faults here – as one would expect (this was a machine with a lot of memory), as the C library provides the ls function and it will be loaded […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  November 23, 2011

  Uncategorized

  hard faults, Hardware, Linux, major faults, Memory, minor faults, Operating Systems, Page fault, soft faults, working set size

• Hard faults and soft faults in the real world

  I ran Audacity under valext and here is the graph of real memory use: And here is the soft and hard fault count: My surmise as to what you can see here? Lots of initialising – with memory use shooting up and down – though the low level of hard faults suggests much of this […]

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  Adrian McMenamin

  November 15, 2011

  Uncategorized

  Audacity, fault count, hard fault, Linux, Memory management, Page fault, soft fault, swap file, working set size