From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 17: 8:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3311D14DD4 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:08:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a064.otenet.gr [195.167.115.64]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA26922 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 03:08:31 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 437 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Oct 1999 12:22:37 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: swapper gave up on me From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 20 Oct 1999 15:22:37 +0300 Message-ID: <864sfm1asy.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 38 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message