Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:54:46 +0200 From: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041024195446.GA13014@droso.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041024185243.85623H-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20041024150130.GN6156@droso.net> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041024185243.85623H-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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--oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:58:21PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: >=20 > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Erwin Lansing wrote: >=20 > > > The Danish part of ftp.freebsd.org (ftp.beastie.tdk.net) does not seem > > > to respond, I have poked one of the admins, but since it's late night > > > here in Denmark, it will probably be some hours before anyone can look > > > at the problem. > > >=20 > > beatie paniced at about 3 am CEST and was rebooted. > >=20 > > I don't know what caused the panic, but I see quite a lot of: > > Oct 23 04:51:29 ftp /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #da/0x2 0001, blkno: 544, size: 4096 > > Oct 23 04:52:07 ftp /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #da/0x2 0001, blkno: 544, size: 4096 >=20 > The swap pager will wait hz*20 (20 seconds) for pages to be read back in > from the swap space -- if it doesn't hear back in that time, it generates > the above warning and then continue waiting. Typically, that kind of wait > might occur because of a hardware problem. Did you see any related > console output from the controller/device driver? Typically having swap > space disappear out from under the system is not good for the health of > the system... >=20 Also my thoughts that a disk is dying, but the controller is reporting everything as optimal. There should also be enough memory, so it's not really using swap space. I'll keep a close look with it, but this is really bad timing :( --=20 _._ _,-'""`-._ Erwin Lansing (,-.`._,'( |\`-/| erwin@lansing.dk http://droso.org `-.-' \ )-`( , o o) erwin@FreeBSD.org -bf- `- \`_`"'- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBfAiGqy9aWxUlaZARAqT2AJ0V1J2ET6UUQG5UMSt6ZB759G4NhgCfZDNF 9GVQipjxZLA45Xj/fAaqz9Q= =ddt5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--
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