If I don't have any swap, do I really need kswapd? Isn't kswapd run in order to free up memory by paging it to the swap partition? If I don't have a swap partition, shouldn't I disable kswapd somehow? How is that done? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/