From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 29 08:50:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA10786 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mhub1.tc.umn.edu (0@mhub1.tc.umn.edu [128.101.131.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA10780 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maroon.tc.umn.edu by mhub1.tc.umn.edu; Fri, 29 Aug 97 10:49:36 -0500 Received: from localhost by maroon.tc.umn.edu; Fri, 29 Aug 97 10:49:36 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:49:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris To: "John S. Dyson" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem using 'vn' device for swap In-Reply-To: <199708290551.AAA00746@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, John S. Dyson wrote: > > Aug 28 23:41:41 mercury /kernel: swap_pager_finish: I/O error, clean of page 67a000 failed > > Aug 28 23:41:42 mercury /kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - async pageout failed; blkno 408, size 8192, error 0 > Did you create the file with: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile count=xxx bs=yyy > > or did you just use an empty 64MB file? Oh, I just used an empty 64MB file. I wasn't aware there was a difference. Thanks, -Chris