Re: VM: page reclaim does not work on ARM9? [resend]

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Fri Aug 29 2008 - 20:49:29 EST


> 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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