From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 18 17:39:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA04085 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:39:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04077 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:39:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id MAA25521; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:08:53 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611190138.MAA25521@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: vnode_pager_input: I/O read error (2.1.5) In-Reply-To: <199611182223.QAA05988@friley216.res.iastate.edu> from Chris Csanady at "Nov 18, 96 04:23:21 pm" To: ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu (Chris Csanady) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:08:53 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chris Csanady stands accused of saying: > This is bad. Im concerned that this will not be fixed for 2.2 since I have > seen similar messages in 3.0. It would be really nice to have a fix, and if > anyone has something that I may try, I would really apreciate it. It's not likely to be fixed if it is truly the hardware error that it appears to be. > Here are the error messages that are repeated thousands of times: > > Oct 16 11:04:09 d /kernel: vnode_pager_input: I/O read error > Oct 16 11:04:09 d /kernel: vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID > 2531 failure > Oct 16 11:04:09 d /kernel: vnode_pager_input: I/O read error Where are the error messages from the device driver? What are you swapping on? Are you using NFS for either swap or your binaries? > Chris Csanady -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[