Hi, In try_to_swap_out() (2.4.19), if the page that is getting swapped out is dirty, we add the page to the dirty_pages list. And I suppose that this page gets flushed out into the disk thru bdflush(). Is there a way that I can write the page into the disk instead of relying on bdflush. should i use the write_page() function of the mapping?? thanks, Raghu -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/