From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed May 17 01:25:02 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E929D7048C for ; Wed, 17 May 2017 01:25:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x234.google.com (mail-wm0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C873ED8C for ; Wed, 17 May 2017 01:25:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x234.google.com with SMTP id d127so866482wmf.0 for ; Tue, 16 May 2017 18:25:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=c8nPLxm9C/dkVKKeMh00MxplD+H5dKN8fNn5P6bpsQU=; b=fUsPkD5w0ewVdlaN/hYNDJXz1ufY4ZaOX8FnqhT8SJp2G+Py72VaDtaVT85zBIZNzn 8tE7hH9hGUoSnIn+Rs980R1MA+Egjgtn7SsK/jsPjHXz4m3PQ45YjJZ9Th9ht7MKN/w3 tBnSt3CwNqvIJ7HOoIOyzh5Kds1g6WTBxYmXSEsOvFjhlRzJrBR9TH2XPgIbsmqNUVVs ukt1E4EhmKb/XYd/ZsYjII1ORLiTj3NJoeeSfTxUbABa7GZkp+GGcjczBZM8nM1ZFWKf WCEfUk1vs+uovYXNDXNyFRjTEULY9A2bKDduImI1MsCAuaoWwWdPeFkrzXK0xJ1mqAey FJ/g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=c8nPLxm9C/dkVKKeMh00MxplD+H5dKN8fNn5P6bpsQU=; b=P5PC3UxZhXm/5+xzcj1wRaZG1yBzENKyioctTCoxm/0I4uWgDUpdzk0uPsJLBEfVtZ Ik8zqydqdtlmcBgu4peDS0k6sCL5ZcZVDMu8xeRpm/2nZenT11U2RxdcyQYkKzJtNBdf WsfwEHubkWtOSHugkvDSb/DZIZBwm0SRv1D3Gipd+VCHJB/M29mdEK2n6BoUAYedKVIS pHd6kpv2gWOQdmPUiUB9U0iOiVGb3htItvBA0MqSbytyKeaf+MDfDCvuUyYWnnhHPk/t hr0t461GbzV6sQ0Pz/argz7bcCTvjE6ZNLjFAqltlIq+YAuqBU+xvwkFSvV9OlcKBvco 3MKQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcBYMsFkM6h0v4bKeWsyS9n4Yh21GYjJTAk7Z6WoTyRw5lYEfF5w eDsIJoshX1NNIbGopiv1ew/HnrwouptG X-Received: by 10.80.137.155 with SMTP id g27mr952047edg.125.1494984299835; Tue, 16 May 2017 18:24:59 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.80.193.17 with HTTP; Tue, 16 May 2017 18:24:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Adam Vande More Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 20:24:59 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: swap_pager on cloud server To: David Mehler Cc: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 01:25:02 -0000 On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 8:10 PM, David Mehler wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a FreeBSd 10.3 vps. Today it started giving me: > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 249488, size: 16384 > > When it does this my ssh session becomes unresponsive. The vps service > offers out of ban services so that I can have an ssh serial console > access. This issue even locks up the console. The only solution is a > reboot. > > I've read that the issue is one of paging and swap not being able to > be written to disk. > > The disks are all virtual I do not believe these disks can go bad so > I'm assuming it's software or system configuration. > > I'd appreciate any suggestions. > What is the output of: # swapinfo -- Adam