From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 18:29:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACAD21065670 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:29:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.grant@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD168FC20 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:29:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.grant@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 25so1820711wfa.7 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:29:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=5uHy/YWxKgsesyDv4nFGQW7LpRV7AL/KZbTkvT3SOt8=; b=KgClOLsDVwztqMjmeI3rXIgQsFfy+jpVldNXvi2xpN/rvmM48bg/eUxCRhNRelkoR39b6knXg0HNMvPfiAqU8f1k/fTQmGRWc7SaziLX6wmkN6JMe9L2Erflir+VCHY7etd0vppG7BoTu7JNDC21+ms5ds0T4AhsM0qz1y+iiiM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=PeanQM5YTXaXAABgJw0dZKhiYYEcFxjCVcASjY+5VIko4YzxfMlgdeEZKj59D8ajr/wtl2PLzMwtpfNQzxi15ogUKkr4COjWGU9r5+eprVMbwJvjCKf1BzZGxGOLN0Sh2H3CBVF6FDLamBM0zaAGSx9EAj5T3A/ScCb5PhyXp/g= Received: by 10.142.221.19 with SMTP id t19mr991400wfg.62.1204741755769; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:29:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.191.9 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:29:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <62b856460803051029v71f4adacia5f43cd3ecb66db3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:29:15 +0100 From: "Michael Grant" Sender: michael.grant@gmail.com To: "Ruben van Staveren" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <62b856460803050106t4375c59aj586a8b48bf91f7de@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 44a367906d604f35 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:29:16 -0000 On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Ruben van Staveren wrote: > On 5 Mar 2008, at 10:06, Michael Grant wrote: > > > My server just literally was brought to it's knees with this message > > spewing on the console: > > > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 1203133, size: > > 4096 > > > > (blkno and size were varying) > > > > Some searching says that this is or was a bug. Has this been fixed > > yet? If so, what should I upgrade to? I'm currently running 6.3 > > You may consider partition backed swap instead of file backed swap if > that is the case. Hmm, I can't easily do that, I didn't leave any empty partitions around as I never considered swapping to a file to be a so bad. Is swapping to a file so bad under normal conditions? Does this mean that this bug is still not fixed in 7.0? Is there any way to do anything akin to Partition Magic on ufs to shrink the fs? (not sure if it's ufs1 or ufs2, mount reports it as 'ufs'). Michael Grant