From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 10 21:20:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA29424 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:20:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA29419 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:20:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id XAA13292; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:19:59 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199710110419.XAA13292@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer In-Reply-To: from "andrew@ugh.net.au" at "Oct 11, 97 02:31:26 pm" To: andrew@ugh.net.au Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:19:59 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk andrew@ugh.net.au said: > Hi All, > > I looked in the archives but found only questions... > > What does: > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 131073, blkno: xxx, sizs: xxxx > mean? Not sure what was in the place of the xxxs as I didnt get to see the > machine myself. > > This was from a 2.2-STABLE box with 2 IDE drives. Sourced supped several > months ago. > It is an I/O error condition (device didn't finish I/O.) Are you using NFS? It is also possible that an error return for the strategy routine could also be a problem (an error return, without B_DONE being set.) -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com