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Date:      Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:46:57 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Lars Kristiansen <lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swapfile problem in 6?
Message-ID:  <20051115214657.GA47444@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <49355.213.236.228.129.1132087452.squirrel@mail.adventuras.no>
References:  <20051115103821.GJ39882@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20051115151647.29549.qmail@web36210.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20051115181652.GA76352@green.homeunix.org> <49355.213.236.228.129.1132087452.squirrel@mail.adventuras.no>

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On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:44:12PM +0100, Lars Kristiansen wrote:

> A couple of the times but not everytime the following message was
> repeatedly displayed at the console before freezing:
>=20
> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 273427, size: 4096

AFAICT that is just a trigger-happy timer..it's supposed to detect
when a swap operation took too long to complete, but it also triggers
on swapfiles since they're so much less efficient (i.e. slower) than
swapping onto a bare device.

Kris

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