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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:54:08 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Frank Ederveen <frank@our.domaintje.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: swap-pager: I/O error, could this really be hardware failure? 
Message-ID:  <199804222054.NAA00795@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:25:10 %2B0200." <19980422082510.47497@domaintje.com> 

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> One of our servers crashed last night, now it is spitting out lots
> of this on the console, send brk won't help me get into the debugger
> put the macgine is still pingable. Someone is going over now to hook
> it up to a remote powerswitch:
> 
> spec_getpages: I/O read error
> vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 1 failure
> swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; blkno 4232, size 8192, error 5
> vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 3147 failure
> vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 17830 failure
> spec_getpages: I/O read error
> vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 1 failure 
> .....
> 
> The machine is a Ppro-200, 256Mbyte running 2.2.6-stable, March 31st.
> Should I replace the memory? I seem to recall that this happened once 
> before, a few months ago. It's an Asus mainboard with 440FX chipset.
> I am not sure about parity.

There should be disk errors associated with this as well.  Is the 
machine running binaries off an NFS-mounted filesystem?

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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