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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
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