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To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Indefinite wait buffer 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:26:43 +0200."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 03:43:52 -0800
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>I'm saw this in my syslog today :
>Jan 21 10:21:24 link /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 131073, blkno: 41216, size: 16384
>
>What does this debug/notification mean ?
>
>The machine is a 2.2.6 release box, and has been running stably for
>quite a while.
>
>FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE #0: Tue Mar 31 22:38:20 SAT 1998     root@link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/KHETAN-GATEWAY

   It means that it took longer than 20 seconds to do a pageout. It's
otherwise harmless.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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