From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Oct 26 16:46:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7087737B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13owKp-0000K1-00; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:21:24 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:21:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Mike Jung Cc: "'freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Indefinite wait buffer In-Reply-To: <9D7F0DF3FB16D41184010050DA90E0001700AA@neo.confluentasp.local> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Mike Jung wrote: > We are having problems with FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE on a machine > dedicated to INN 2.3.0. It has been running solid until two nights ago when > it started spewing the message - > > swap_pager: idefinite wait buffer: device: #mlxd/0x30001, blkno: xx size: > 4096 Usually indicates problem with the harddrive containing the swap space. If the kernel gets a device timeout trying to page a block back in from swap, there are not a lot of good recovery options. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message