Hi, When does a process free the unwanted pages to its own local_freelist rather than freeing it to the global freelist ? Is this done only by any particular kind of processes OR it is done by all processes? please do explain. thanks, raghu -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/