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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


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