On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:08:12PM +0530, naveen yadav wrote: > adding to mm mailing list I think rather than just adding a mailing list to a message containing almost no useful content, you may do better to start a new thread including the linux-mm mailing list, describing the problem that you're seeing, the kernel messages plus the test program all in a single message. I don't think the problem you're reporting is ARM specific - to me it looks like something is holding on to processes pages after they've been killed, and only giving them back after the OOM killer has killed off the last killable task. That's certainly what the "xxx free pages" values hint at. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>