Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:58:21 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041024185243.85623H-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20041024150130.GN6156@droso.net>
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Erwin Lansing wrote: > > The Danish part of ftp.freebsd.org (ftp.beastie.tdk.net) does not seem > > to respond, I have poked one of the admins, but since it's late night > > here in Denmark, it will probably be some hours before anyone can look > > at the problem. > > > beatie paniced at about 3 am CEST and was rebooted. > > I don't know what caused the panic, but I see quite a lot of: > Oct 23 04:51:29 ftp /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > #da/0x2 0001, blkno: 544, size: 4096 > Oct 23 04:52:07 ftp /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > #da/0x2 0001, blkno: 544, size: 4096 The swap pager will wait hz*20 (20 seconds) for pages to be read back in from the swap space -- if it doesn't hear back in that time, it generates the above warning and then continue waiting. Typically, that kind of wait might occur because of a hardware problem. Did you see any related console output from the controller/device driver? Typically having swap space disappear out from under the system is not good for the health of the system... Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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