Hi, Please help me to understand this better. each buffer has a buffer head. the b_page of buffer_head points to the page that contains the mapped data. Will both these pages ( the page that holds the buffer_head structure and buffer page that contains the actual data) mapped to the process OR only the page with the buffer_head is mapped to the process ? In other words, the rss value of the process accounts for both these pages or it accounts for only the page with the buffer_head ? Thanks a lot, Raghu -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/