From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 4 20:43:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA16497 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA16490 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA07064; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:42:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:42:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Charles Henrich cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap Files In-Reply-To: <19970804111755.21337@crh.cl.msu.edu> 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 Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Charles Henrich wrote: > I have a P-II system with no swapspace other than a single 256mb swapfile and > 128mb of RAM. However, whenever the system appears to try and use swap, I > get: > > swap_pager: I/O error - async pageout failed; blkno 208, size 4096, error 6 > swap_pager_finish: I/O error, clean of page 7ea6000 failed > > I created the file with dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=4096 count=65536 > (or something similar to that). > > Any ideas? Are you trying to make a vnswap space? Didn't you allocate a partition for swap? You should have during initial system setup. See vnconfig(8) for details on how to set this up. Your performance is going to be horrible though; I would suggest repartitioning if this is a new system. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo