Ravi> Swapping pages to a swap partition isn't the only Ravi> job of kswapd. It also reaps the kernel caches Ravi> (inode cache, dentry cache, etc.), which does not Ravi> involve any swapping. So disabling kswapd isn't the Ravi> right thing to do, even on a swapless system. OK, I see. What about these two: 5 root S [bdflush] 6 root S [kupdated] Aren't they specifically for swap? Dave -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/