Re: [PATCH] fix for process virtual size display

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:31:06AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
>>MEM_RESERVE Reserves a range of the process's virtual address space 
>>without allocating any actual physical storage in memory or in the paging 
>>file on disk. Other memory allocation functions, such as malloc and 
>>LocalAlloc, cannot use a reserved range of memory until it is released.
>
>Yes -- I am wondering what Windows is really doing internally, though.
>
>What does it mean that no physical storage is allocated in memory?  
>Obviously
>no pages are allocated.  But do they allocate page tables so they can catch
>accesses to the reserved memory?  Or for performance reasons, so it can
>be changed to committed faster?
>
>They're keeping track of reserved memory somehow, the question is what
>amount of resource is being dedicated to the task.

If I understand this thread correctly, Chris is not comfortable with the
patch as is.  So, I'll wait for an updated patch given his suggestions?

cgf