Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 06:46:17 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Mike Holling <myke@ees.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer Message-ID: <199909241346.GAA17711@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:20:37 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909240816110.681-100000@phluffy.fks.bt>
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>Any clues on what this means? > >swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x20401, blkno: 28040, size: >4096 > >It's been showing up, on and off, in the daily logs of a -STABLE machine >running a snapshot from sometime in June. The box is a K6-2 400 with a >DPT RAID controller. Nothing bad seems to have happened yet (no apps >mysteriously dying) and the machine's been up for a few months. It's harmless and just means that it took a rather long time for some pages to get paged out due to overloaded disk(s). Probably indicates that you should add some memory or at least add another swap partition on another disk drive. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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