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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2022-02-07T16:34:37Z"
+ content="""
+Is maxvmem what top would display as "VIRT"?
+
+Sometimes a few years ago, ghc started just mapping the entire available
+memory range, which makes it appear in VIRT that it's using the entire size
+of the system memory. Of course, the actual RSS is much lower. It appears to
+have been 40 mb for you.
+
+git-annex add can add files of arbitrary size without buffering them all in
+memory.
+"""]]