Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:31:06 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Mike Holling <myke@ees.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909241730440.11886-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199909241346.GAA17711@implode.root.com>
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In my experience (today), it was indicative of a bad hard drive and caused a system hang :( On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, David Greenman wrote: > >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 > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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