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My GNU screens are taking up a lot of virtual memory. What could be the reason behind this? I have confirmed that none of them have more than 5 tabs in them. I noticed this when i got 'fork: Cannot allocate memory' error on trying to create a new tab in one of the screens. Below is htop output for the screens I have -
VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
31.0G 20.5G 788 S 0.0 16.3 31:07.33 SCREEN -dR sc1
19.4G 15.6G 4 S 0.0 12.4 4h26:16 SCREEN -dR sc2
17.5G 12.2G 4 S 0.0 9.7 9:13.87 SCREEN -dR sc3
14.1G 11.2G 4 S 0.0 8.9 11:49.34 SCREEN -dR sc4
12.7G 11.0G 40 S 0.0 8.7 7:43.32 SCREEN -dR sc5
Jedi
Posted 2017-06-13T13:12:17.720
Reputation: 53
I have the same problem, still looking into it, but 1) consider ulimits, 2) htop is not perfect, I've seen it be quite wrong, top never fails, although isn't as pretty, but I've never seen it be wrong, 3) one of my guesses is the scrollback buffer, lots of buffer, a bunch of tabs... can't be gigs, but maybe it's something like that. – Stu – 2020-01-25T01:57:59.083