Go's memory management, ulimit -v, and RSS control

PGD, PMD and PTE are part of page tables, and they won't be allocated by a simple mmap. The kernel will record the mmap with a single VMA (a structure representing an mmap), which is small. My only concern is that if you do actual allocations (i.e. change protections) a page at a time, you'll get a VMA for each page, and that consumes memory and slows down page faults for that program. A good memory manager will allocate memory from the OS in bigger chunks, and I hope/guess that Go's memory manager is good enough to do this.