From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 24 19:54:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39CA16A4CE; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:54:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.droso.net (koala.droso.net [193.88.12.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F94343D1D; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:54:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7A4B62282C; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:54:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:54:46 +0200 From: Erwin Lansing To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041024195446.GA13014@droso.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20041024150130.GN6156@droso.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:54:47 -0000 --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:58:21PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: >=20 > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Erwin Lansing wrote: >=20 > > > The Danish part of ftp.freebsd.org (ftp.beastie.tdk.net) does not seem > > > to respond, I have poked one of the admins, but since it's late night > > > here in Denmark, it will probably be some hours before anyone can look > > > at the problem. > > >=20 > > beatie paniced at about 3 am CEST and was rebooted. > >=20 > > I don't know what caused the panic, but I see quite a lot of: > > Oct 23 04:51:29 ftp /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #da/0x2 0001, blkno: 544, size: 4096 > > Oct 23 04:52:07 ftp /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #da/0x2 0001, blkno: 544, size: 4096 >=20 > The swap pager will wait hz*20 (20 seconds) for pages to be read back in > from the swap space -- if it doesn't hear back in that time, it generates > the above warning and then continue waiting. Typically, that kind of wait > might occur because of a hardware problem. Did you see any related > console output from the controller/device driver? Typically having swap > space disappear out from under the system is not good for the health of > the system... >=20 Also my thoughts that a disk is dying, but the controller is reporting everything as optimal. There should also be enough memory, so it's not really using swap space. I'll keep a close look with it, but this is really bad timing :( --=20 _._ _,-'""`-._ Erwin Lansing (,-.`._,'( |\`-/| erwin@lansing.dk http://droso.org `-.-' \ )-`( , o o) erwin@FreeBSD.org -bf- `- \`_`"'- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBfAiGqy9aWxUlaZARAqT2AJ0V1J2ET6UUQG5UMSt6ZB759G4NhgCfZDNF 9GVQipjxZLA45Xj/fAaqz9Q= =ddt5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--