Re: OK, but what about kswapd in a swapless system?

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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

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