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Subject: Re: vnode_pager_input: I/O read error (2.1.5) 
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From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu>
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>As Chris Csanady wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>``Probably hardware error.''
>
>(I think the only other case where this is known to happens is vnode
>pager input from NFS, e.g. if the NFS server for a running executable
>dropped away.)

Well, if it is losing contact with the NFS server, then this is a problem
as well. :-)  Anyone know why this might happen?

Actually, on my current(3.0) machine, it actually gives me a message about
losing contact with the nfs server.  Sometimes this is permanent (or seems to
be) until I reboot, but very rare.

Chris Csanady

>-- 
>cheers, J"org
>
>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)