Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:35:12 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: indefinite wait buffer Message-ID: <199902182335.QAA04655@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpzp6bjos6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Feb 19, 1999 0: 5:45 am"
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote... > 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=65536' (to force the drive to remap > bad sectors) caused the following error messages: > > Feb 19 00:00:20 flood /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x401, blkno: 1064, size: 20480 > Feb 19 00:01:00 flood last message repeated 2 times > Feb 19 00:03:00 flood last message repeated 6 times > Feb 19 00:03:05 flood /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x401, blkno: 256, size: 4096 > Feb 19 00:03:20 flood /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x401, blkno: 1064, size: 20480 > Feb 19 00:03:25 flood /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x401, blkno: 256, size: 4096 > Feb 19 00:03:40 flood /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x401, blkno: 1064, size: 20480 > Feb 19 00:03:45 flood /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x401, blkno: 256, size: 4096 > Feb 19 00:04:00 flood /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x401, blkno: 1064, size: 20480 > > They keep coming every 5-15 seconds. > > The box is running FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE (post-RELEASE) That generally happens when the disk stops responding for some reason. What disk is your swap on? I assume you aren't doing the dd to a disk that you're actually using... Did you see any SCSI-type errors around the time of the indefinite wait buffer error message? Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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