Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:42:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap Files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970804204112.6856R-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19970804111755.21337@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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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
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