I was doing some tests over the weekend, and after doing a swapoff -a and stressing the system, I hit the bad_device: goto in __swap_free(): printk("swap_free: Trying to free swap from unused swap-device\n"); I was compiling kernels at the time. The swap setup was a 200Mb partition on /dev/hda and a 40Mb partition on /dev/hdb This was 2.4.0ac9 thanks john - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/