From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 05:00:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24FF716A4E2 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 05:00:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECDF843FEA for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 05:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net ([12.226.48.70]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <200309041200270150027qohe>; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:00:27 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87253484BE for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:10:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions" Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:07:54 -0400 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2717) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600;1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20030904121020.87253484BE@wastegate.net> Subject: swap_pager with Freebsd 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:00:35 -0000 I running FreeBSD 5.1-p2 (I sup'd the src about 2-3weeks ago), and since I've installed it, I've gotten some weird crashes. about once every 7-8 day i'll get the msg: swap_pager: indefinite wait for swap device: /dev/ad0s1b, buf xxx block 4096 something to that effect, I can't capture the text. the machine just keeps looping away, saying that message. I was googling, and it said that it could be a bad drive and/or controller/hardware, which i intend to run maxtor's powermax to test the drive. (any problems with that? i have a DD partition). However, none of this happened until I went to 5.1. (i was running 5.0 without any problems). I had like 85 days of uptime. (and that was only because I sup'd the security fixes). anyone have any clues? please CC me, as sometime i can't watch the list.. thanx --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net