--- David Wuertele <dave-gnus@bfnet.com> wrote: > 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? Swapping pages to a swap partition isn't the only job of kswapd. It also reaps the kernel caches (inode cache, dentry cache, etc.), which does not involve any swapping. So disabling kswapd isn't the right thing to do, even on a swapless system. -Ravi. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
