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 How much memory does earlyoom use?
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-About `0.6MB RSS`. All memory is locked using `mlockall()` to make sure
-earlyoom does not slow down in low memory situations.
+About `2 MiB` (`VmRSS`), though only `220 kiB` is private memory (`RssAnon`).
+The rest is the libc library (`RssFile`) that is shared with other processes.
+All memory is locked using `mlockall()` to make sure earlyoom does not slow down in low memory situations.
 
 Download and compile
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