What to Look For
- Some low physical memory ranges are reserved to the kernel.
- Process starts and soaks up memory that was initially free.
- Paging daemon frees pages allocated to other processes, and the system reallocates them to the test process.
- After an initial flurry of demand-loading activity, things settle down after most of the process memory is resident.
- Paging daemon begins to run more frequently as memory becomes overcommitted (dark blue deactivation stripes).
- Test process touches pages deactivated by the paging daemon, causing them to be reactivated.
- Test process exits (heavy red bar).