I run 'swapoff -a' in the middle of 'make j10 bzImage' with 32M (by lilo) and got this: Jan 3 17:30:07 lenstra kernel: VM: Undead swap entry 000f3100 Jan 3 17:30:07 lenstra kernel: VM: Bad swap entry 000f3100 Jan 3 17:30:07 lenstra kernel: VM: Bad swap entry 000f3100 Jan 3 17:30:07 lenstra kernel: Unused swap offset entry in swap_count 000f3100 Jan 3 17:30:07 lenstra kernel: VM: Bad swap entry 000f3100 I that moment the swap was about 20-25M. (ok, maybe swapoff by root is rather "unfair" but.. :-) -- Lorenzo - 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/