From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759210AbXJXNhT (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:37:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753084AbXJXNhG (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:37:06 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.236]:56683 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbXJXNhE (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:37:04 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=PfEwDM8vauBx6vPJdx1KsbCDtbUn7cZ+iwtr14kSkB3ijWa8Md4y3bC+6zHa/cesyIOKUcwbSVJhT2W1iHR+W0GNj0eRd58kxgm3U1o7ajHcSo7bDGT07biUFvkM1/rc0oG+OR/XfZut2bwxHp0STY/jdyYKvjpFN3v+MUDxzfM= Message-ID: <8bf247760710240637w686f1a2fxdf63a649787eca25@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:07:02 +0530 From: Ram To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: kernel processes - are they really needed? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, When i do ps -l. i see the following processes which are obviously started by kernel. Could any one tell me what each of these processes do and can anyone of them can be removed.? PID Uid VmSize Stat Command 1 root 584 S init 2 root SWN [ksoftirqd/0] 3 root SW [watchdog/0] 4 root SW< [events/0] 5 root SW< [khelper] 6 root SW< [kthread] 23 root SW< [kblockd/0] 38 root SW [pdflush] 39 root SW [pdflush] 40 root SW< [kswapd0] 41 root SW< [aio/0] 85 root SW [mtdblockd] 116 root SWN [jffs2_gcd_mtd9] Regards, ram