Chang jabbered:
> Are those k* proceses related to KDE?
> 
> # ps ax | more
>     2 ?        SW     0:00 [keventd]
>     3 ?        SW     3:00 [kswapd]
>     4 ?        SW     0:00 [kreclaimd]
>     5 ?        SW     0:03 [bdflush]
>     6 ?        SW     0:20 [kupdated]
>     7 ?        SW<    0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
>   108 ?        SW     0:00 [khubd]

No. They are kernel related. kswapd is the swap daemon; kreclaimd
is part of the kernel's VM; bdflush and kupdated are part of the
kernel's cache flushing; mdrecoveryd is used by the RAID subsystem;
khubd is part of the USB subsystem. I don't know off the top of
my head what keventd is, however.

Kurt
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