From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 10:16:10 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 36BE716A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:16:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from geminix.org (gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net [213.73.91.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D0743D2D for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:16:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gemini@geminix.org) Message-ID: <3FDA05E6.2090807@geminix.org> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:16:06 +0100 From: Uwe Doering Organization: Private UNIX Site User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031210223650.GA22516@saturn.pcs.ms> In-Reply-To: <20031210223650.GA22516@saturn.pcs.ms> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from gemini by geminix.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1AUrpg-0004XU-00; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:16:08 +0100 Subject: Re: Strange errors "swap..." 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: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:16:10 -0000 Martin Schweizer wrote: > I've got some strange errors but don't no what they realy mean: > > [snip] > Dec 8 09:47:52 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 52232, size: 4096 > [snip] > Dec 9 09:40:27 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 3464, size: 4096 > Dec 9 09:40:39 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 3464, size: 4096 > Dec 9 09:40:39 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 14952, size: 8192 > [snip] > > Do you have some ideas? This can mean that the hard disk the swap pager tried to access has a problem. This message doesn't necessarily mean that the operation failed, but that it took longer than 20 seconds to complete the swap request for a buffer, which is unusual for a healthy hard disk. We had this once in conjunction with a dying hard disk which was fortunately part of a raid array, so it was sufficiently easy to replace the disk. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers gemini@geminix.org | http://www.escapebox.net