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Message-ID: <2f11576a0808291749s6a154a49nea191f16bd5e6756@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:49:17 +0900
From:	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Wappler Marcel" <Marcel.Wappler@...dgeco.net>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VM: page reclaim does not work on ARM9? [resend]

> My expectation was: the VM shall steal (reclaim) all the
> only once touched pages containing those dumb linear code of
> the app.
>
> My observation is: "top" shows that the app is consuming
> constantly the same huge amount of residential memory during
> the decreasing free memory space. At some moment the kernel
> starts a OOM killer on the app instead of reclaiming its
> unused code pages.

I guess this isn't code pages.
So, Can you observe /proc/{pid}/smaps file?

it tell you detail of these pages.


Thanks.
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