From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 23 20:31:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A51D106567D for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 20:31:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paulbeard@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2118FC2E for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 20:31:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paulbeard@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b33so207675ana.13 for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:31:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=sIZpVXmfTMMlx/mj1RsHS3zW8WuSPobaqod/NI2xMVc=; b=HouqfRFyAHKdgaEULBLyIvaedu0ZJRbE1aH5cmlayQoVXeVQ9hn8VIybqTZt+YWZ+cEs3qXh199W9RKxTdKN/pYsW9bByrTQk6hw+tyDcGASpocn/OwBV1njVDqRVPhdQFWgCnm6Ns/rawbSMyK6zkrmCVM4JsVifAfD/i0lguY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=AL+z8H2d2MN+/WcQZ4bD++qNMLm+aIOpDIImPMVOsh1N22YAIAGb63s5TeRiVDUNcObyYhgfGD9l8MptHWE/NFgB8LTKVF9UdFg4RlT9siwaxJt3Ytd/DwQLUNro3OWNehEBhk7uYTGQyEwbsj4RS0QJnQmJbcrdbMa7gm7PA+A= Received: by 10.100.46.10 with SMTP id t10mr1173097ant.22.1211572955207; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.226.16 with HTTP; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:02:35 -0700 From: "paul beard" To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 20:31:26 -0000 I see a lot of these as my system grinds to a halt. It never crashes (I reboot it when it gets really boggy . . . May 23 11:41:13 stinky kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 49155, size: 4096 May 23 11:41:21 stinky kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 48905, size: 4096 This is the top of the kernel debug Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: <118>May 23 12:48:46 stinky syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop... Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...1 0 0 done All buffers synced. swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; blkno 35668,size 4096, error 5 panic: swap_pager_force_pagein: read from swap failed Uptime: 14h20m56s Physical memory: 115 MB Dumping 37 MB: 22 6 #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:195 195 __asm __volatile("movl %%fs:0,%0" : "=r" (td)); I have partition-based swap and swap files I set up after gcc was running out of memory. Device: 1048576-blocks Used: /dev/ad0s2b 139 0 /dev/md0 128 0 Any ideas what I can do (besides buy more hardware)? -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/