path: hatari_2.6.1+dfsg-2/doc/memory-usage.txt To see how much from the memory pmap tells Hatari to have allocated is actually used/dirtied, take a peek at: /proc/$(pidof hatari)/smaps. Of the rest of the 40MB Hatari VMSIZE you see in "top" (about 16MB), path: hatari_2.6.1+dfsg-2/doc/memory-usage.txt see that the libraries Hatari links don't use so much private (writable) memory, only couple of hundred KB: pmap $(pidof hatari) | grep / | grep rw To see how much from the memory pmap tells Hatari to have allocated is