The show_mem() output does not include the total number of pagecache pages. This really limits the value of the debugging information sent to the console and /var/log/messages file when OOM kills occur. The attached patch includes the total pagecache pages in that output: ------------------------------------------------- Node 0 Normal: empty Node 0 HighMem: empty > >>113032 pagecache pages Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0 Free swap = 2031608kB Total swap = 2031608kB Free swap: 2031608kB 523900 pages of RAM 42142 reserved pages 63864 pages shared 0 pages swap cached ------------------------------------------------