Hey everyone, When the sys_swapoff() routine is attempting to deactivate a swap area it checks to make sure there is enough free space to swap-in the required new page frames from the deactivating swap device. In __vm_enough_memory it adds to the free variable counting all currently active swap pages, including from the device that is to be deactivated, with: free += get_nr_swap_pages(); My question/confusion is, why doesn't the kernel have code in place to exclude free swap pages from the device that is to be deactivated when __vm_enough_memory is used for this purpose? Is it because it would require reworking too much of what approximately works now? In other words, is this a cost/benefit decision to not have that added logic? Or perhaps I'm just misunderstanding how something is supposed to work? Thanks, -- Colin Hamilton <colin.hamilton@suse.com> SUSE