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Date:      Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:39:42 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        delphij@delphij.net
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, sos@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: indefinite wait buffer: Does this indicate hardware issue?
Message-ID:  <20051216193942.GA92029@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <a78074950512160849w70335610xd2cb0c3b61ed92a2@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a78074950512160849w70335610xd2cb0c3b61ed92a2@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 12:49:48AM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> Dear folks,
>=20
> I have a box indicating the following sometimes:
> "swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 262169, size: 4096"
>=20
> It's running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE, with two Maxtor 7Y250P0 hard disks
> attached to Intel ICH5 UDMA100 controller with hw.ata.wc disabled.
>=20
> Does this indicate a hardware issue, or some bugs elsewhere?

In that configuration, probably a hardware issue.  Is it always the
same block?

This message triggers as a false positive in other cases when swapping
is too slow, like if you swap to a swapfile on a heavily loaded
filesystem.

Kris

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