Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:36:53 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Peter van Heusden <pvh@wfeet.za.net>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unexplained kernel panic on 5-STABLE (now in 6-STABLE) Message-ID: <20060818083653.GD732@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20060817191821.GB33267@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <44DED670.9050601@wfeet.za.net> <200608141430.38015.jhb@freebsd.org> <44E426E5.2000703@wfeet.za.net> <200608171324.48815.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060817191821.GB33267@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--yudcn1FV7Hsu/q59 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2006-Aug-17 15:18:21 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:24:48PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Thursday 17 August 2006 04:20, Peter van Heusden wrote: >> > kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 151698, >> > size: 28672 > >This can indicate that your swap disk is failing (or you are using a >nonstandard swap setup like swapping to a file); it means that the >kernel timed out trying to read/write from swap. I think this can also mean that another device on that channel/bus is failing and tying up the bus for an extended period. I think I've seen this error from an IDE disk when the CD-ROM slave on the same bus was flaky. --=20 Peter Jeremy --yudcn1FV7Hsu/q59 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE5Xwl/opHv/APuIcRAi5JAJ4vKT7LnYeTieG9QGP39m/wTktBegCfZmWf HP9Yrzca+UqVTOAL4eAuRyM= =JtWo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yudcn1FV7Hsu/q59--
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