Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:37:20 -0500 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Marco Pizzi <marco@pizzi.name> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap problem on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC Message-ID: <20050208223720.GA16034@VARK.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050208144950.0343e3c0@127.0.0.1> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050208144950.0343e3c0@127.0.0.1>
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2005, Marco Pizzi wrote: > Hello, > > We've installed (a long time ago) the FreeBSD version 5.2.1-RC on a server. > We've noticed, at least two times, very bad problems on the swap system; in > the > detail, we've found the well known error in the messages file: > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: da0s1a > > The fact strange is that the da0s1a device is not a swap partition! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > Pass# > /dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 As Kris mentioned, this warning means that an I/O took too long, and it usually means you have a failing disk. As for the fact that it reported the wrong partition on the disk, Poul-Henning ``fixed'' the problem in -CURRENT by making the warning less useful. (It no longer tells you which disk is failing at all.)
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