From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Apr 22 13:57:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22767 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:57:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22721 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:57:41 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00795; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804222054.NAA00795@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Frank Ederveen cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap-pager: I/O error, could this really be hardware failure? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:25:10 +0200." <19980422082510.47497@domaintje.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:54:08 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message