From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 18 9:58:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE20014D32 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:58:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA00663 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:58:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:58:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Error message, failing harddisk? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a 2.2.8-19990120-SNAP box that has been occasionally hanging, becoming unresponsive to anything but pings. It's stayed in that state for several hours until I rebooted before. Occasionally, I get a little bit of response, but it isn't consistent or predictable (this morning I was sitting at "connected" trying to telnet into the box for 90 minutes without a login prompt). I also find messages like this in the logs. Sep 18 06:36:16 harlie /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 131073, blkno: 2816, size: 4096 Sep 18 09:33:13 harlie /kernel: evice: 131081, blkno: 8104, size: 4096 Sep 18 09:33:13 harlie /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 131073, blkno: 2816, size: 4096 I've got two swap partitions, one on each of my hard drives (both are IDE, master and slave on the first channel). So does this look like a failing hard drive to anyone else? This is fairly new behavior, with no hardware or OS changes in several months. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message