Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:30:37 +0200 From: Steven Enderle <freebsd@gizm0.org> To: Zoltan Frombach <tssajo@hotmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer - on 5.3-RELEASE-p5 Message-ID: <42720CCD.4030108@gizm0.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY103-DAV16DEFF10A2037DC7039E48DF240@phx.gbl> References: <BAY103-DAV16DEFF10A2037DC7039E48DF240@phx.gbl>
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Try to mirror the disk with dd (if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=1m) You should really think about getting a RAID controller, i can recommend you a 2 channel 3ware controller (less than 100$) Kind regards Steven -- ++ message delivered by gizm0.org <http://gizm0.org/>; ++ free webmail - imap, pop3, ssl secured Zoltan Frombach wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a pretty stable FreeBSD 5.3-p5 production server which worked > just fine - until today. I host over 100+ web sites on it (Apache + > PHP4 + MySQL), email, ftp, etc. There was a time when it was up for > over 6 months without a reboot. So it is stable. But today I had a > strange problem with this server. I could ping it, but nothing else > worked. I had to reboot it by plugging the power. After it came back, > this is what I've found in the log file (and nothing else). > > Apr 29 02:10:14 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1a, blkno: 328636, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:10:24 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1e, blkno: 329842, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:10:24 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 330511, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:10:24 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 331470, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:10:24 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 332030, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:10:49 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 332257, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:10:49 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1a, blkno: 332309, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:11:14 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 332252, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1a, blkno: 332301, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 332260, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1a, blkno: 332307, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 332229, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 328470, size: 16384 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 328967, size: 16384 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 329231, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 329479, size: 16384 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 329673, size: 16384 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 332224, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 329234, size: 16384 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 316002, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 332185, size: 16384 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 331763, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 318855, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1a, blkno: 319335, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319135, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319196, size: 16384 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319146, size: 16384 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319243, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319191, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319235, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319183, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319232, size: 12288 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319276, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319189, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319327, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319186, size: 12288 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319206, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 319256, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 301096, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 301145, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 301468, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 301887, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 302503, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 302557, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 302509, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 302554, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1a, blkno: 302635, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 153651, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 163264, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1e, blkno: 302910, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 154346, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 305352, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 305806, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 306642, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 307015, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 305471, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1a, blkno: 305759, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 307088, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 307046, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 307085, size: 12288 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 307045, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 307092, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 293203, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 307060, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1a, blkno: 320047, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 320630, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 320861, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 320842, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 320863, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 320902, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 231845, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 267922, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 232017, size: 4096 > Apr 29 02:33:35 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 231686, size: 8192 > Apr 29 02:34:18 www kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > device: ad0s1f, blkno: 267959, size: 4096 > > It works just fine since the reboot. Not even fsck was needed (file > system didn't get dirty by plugging the power???)... > > I've never seen this error message before. This could be an indication > of what? A dying IDE hard drive??? > > I happen to have an identical hard drive around here, unused. If I > hook it up as a slave (IDE) drive, is there a way I can mirror the > dying drive to the spare one (with all partitions, etc, intact)? > > Any help/comments would be appreciated. Please CC me, as I am not a > subscriber of this list. Thanks!!! > > Zoltan _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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