On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:14:47PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > Please post the contents of /proc/meminfo and /proc/zoneinfo when
> > > this is happening.
> > 
> > I just noticed that the amount of RAM the VMs had in VIRT added up
> > to considerably more than the host's actual RAM; hard_limit is now
> > on.  So I may not be able to replicate this.  :)
> 
> Or not; even with hard_limit the VIRT value goes to hundreds of MiB
> more than the limit.  Is that expected?

Yes, VIRT field refers to total memory mapped by the process, not paged-in
memory, which is indicated by the RES field.

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