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> > I have a x86_64 Chromebook running 3.14 kernel with 8G of memory. Using
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> Do you see the same with the current Linus tree?
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I haven't tried on ToT because it takes much effort to port to the specific
device.
But I've managed to try it on v4.4 .
Surprisingly the problem goes away.



> > Thus the kernel fails to reclaim those pages at line 1209
> > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/mm/vmscan.c#L1209
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> I assume that you are talking about the anonymous LRU
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Yes, I mean anonymous LRU.