> I have a x86_64 Chromebook running 3.14 kernel with 8G of memory. Using

Do you see the same with the current Linus tree?

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

I assume that you are talking about the anonymous LRU

Yes, I mean anonymous LRU.