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From: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: "Wappler Marcel" <Marcel.Wappler@bridgeco.net>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VM: page reclaim does not work on ARM9? [resend]
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:49:17 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f11576a0808291749s6a154a49nea191f16bd5e6756@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <462ADBE7F1A69C438B7E2ED56007E6F5ABF9A43F2B@exch10.BC-Int.NET>

> 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.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-30  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2008-08-28  8:01 ` Wappler Marcel
2008-08-30  0:49   ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]

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