Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:15:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Greeves ROOT <root@mfn.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic during backups Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809132214230.1111-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980911202259.11522A-100000@greeves.mfn.org>
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Greeves ROOT wrote: > Greetings... > > Three days ago we attempted to automate our backups rather > then having the night folks do it. A simple shell script (below) is > the vehicle. > > On the first night out, the system ran the job (from cron, > as root), and ran out of file desriptors. So I built a new kernel > with maxusers=30, and waited for the next night. Next night's > backup crashed but left no reason why. Yesterdays backups at least > left a trail 8=> > > This is being retyped, as I couldnt cut/paste it: > > swap_pager: indefinite wait on buffer: device: 131073, blkno: 6320, size: > 8192 > swap_pager: indefinite wait on buffer: device: 131073, blkno: 86104, size: > 12288 This is usually caused by bad blocks in the swap partition. Check your disk out and verify/low-level format if necessary. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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