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Date:      Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:47:10 +0200
From:      Jacques Beigbeder <Jacques.Beigbeder@free.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer?
Message-ID:  <20010701144710.A3247@trefle.ens.fr>

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  Hardware: PC Dell
  OS:       FreeBSD 3.3 (november 1999)
  Kernel:   GENERIC

Yesterday, this very important host on my network failed with:
  swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x20401, blkno:XXX, size: 4096
(2 different values shown for XXX).

Using mail archives, I found this message can occur when there is
some hardware failure on the disk. But:
. no message appears in /var/log/all.log (*.* -> all.log)
. even if i try:
	dd if=/dev/da0s1b of=/dev/null
              ^ swap partition

I also see that the file swap_pager.c was modified between FreeBSD 3.4
and FreeBSD 4.2.

So is my problem really hardware?
Or is there a software fix?

Thanks in advance.

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