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Date:      20 Oct 1999 15:22:37 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   swapper gave up on me
Message-ID:  <864sfm1asy.fsf@localhost.hell.gr>

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Only a few minutes ago I noticed that X11 froze on my FreeBSD box, and I had
to manually reboot the thing -- at the same time, the disk seemed to be
working and I was a bit scared I would trash my filesystems.  However, it came 
up really nicely, phew!

Note that the machine had been happily up for almost 4 days now :-)

The funny thing is that a glimpse at /var/log/messages showed this:

    /kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; blkno 2832, \
	size 20480, error 22
    /kernel: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 418 (wmaker

Should I start worrying that my disk has grown "bad" blocks?  Could this be
caused by something else, except a faulty disk area?

The disk is a Western-Digital 6 Gb IDE one, and the /etc/fstab setup is
something like:

    # Device	   Mountpoint  FStype  Options    Dump  Pass#
    /dev/wd0s1b    none        swap    sw         0     0
    /dev/wd0s4b    none        swap    sw         0     0
    /dev/wd0s1a    /           ufs     rw         1     1
    /dev/wd0s2a    /mp3        ufs     rw         1     2
    /dev/wd0s3a    /htdocs     ufs     rw         1     2
    proc           /proc       procfs  rw         0     0
    /dev/wcd0c     /cdrom      cd9660  ro,noauto  0     0

With the partitions having the following sizes:

    /dev/wd0s1     4 Gb
    /dev/wd0s2     1 Gb
    /dev/wd0s3     1 Gb

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]


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