Hi, The attached output shows that when we hit swap - there are code lines with latency problems :-( [the actual code tested is test3-pre2 with my latency modifications (improvement and profiling) but has one modification relative test3-pre4 kswapd in the tested version always sleeps => problems accounted to the process causing it] see the 293ms in generic_make_request... and the 704ms used to busy loop in modprobe... (SB16 non PnP) These are worse then the previously found aux_write_dev :-( /RogerL -- Home page: http://www.norran.net/nra02596/