Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:16:06 +0100 From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange errors "swap..." Message-ID: <3FDA05E6.2090807@geminix.org> In-Reply-To: <20031210223650.GA22516@saturn.pcs.ms> References: <20031210223650.GA22516@saturn.pcs.ms>
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Martin Schweizer wrote:
> I've got some strange errors but don't no what they realy mean:
>
> [snip]
> Dec 8 09:47:52 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 52232, size: 4096
> [snip]
> Dec 9 09:40:27 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 3464, size: 4096
> Dec 9 09:40:39 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 3464, size: 4096
> Dec 9 09:40:39 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 14952, size: 8192
> [snip]
>
> Do you have some ideas?
This can mean that the hard disk the swap pager tried to access has a
problem. This message doesn't necessarily mean that the operation
failed, but that it took longer than 20 seconds to complete the swap
request for a buffer, which is unusual for a healthy hard disk.
We had this once in conjunction with a dying hard disk which was
fortunately part of a raid array, so it was sufficiently easy to replace
the disk.
Uwe
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