From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932841AbZHZBcE (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:32:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932837AbZHZBcD (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:32:03 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f195.google.com ([209.85.212.195]:64525 "EHLO mail-vw0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932749AbZHZBcC (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:32:02 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 420 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:32:01 EDT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=hT9ujY92u+pDDhEYu+Z0arCB4noNOAA1ivjzp1Z8Uw4FfzuWqt9IddAa6fIUfpox6N VDwc/kF/NdfpRwVVcesEfIWjaBfRGkVkNgjUb1Kl8lycQz6ls3XsfeuJ6ygFahHQdLYN hmE59jDuS33NfPPLTqgXMIMRZjEahRUWzApQw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:25:03 +0800 Message-ID: <30c949580908251825n59da4bceg77c464eca01f0c46@mail.gmail.com> Subject: oom-killer works,but the memory cannot be freed From: Bill Xie To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org My harware is a mips-achitecture hand-hold device, runs 2.6.24.3 and qt. when an application program opened a 3.2M pdf file, the memory was consuming continually, finally the "oom-killer" things happened, the applicaton was killed, but the memory occupied by the application still can not be freed. Is there some methods to do with this situation?