From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 13 18:20:17 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB21616A420 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:20:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A6B13C45E for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:20:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot26.obsecurity.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770901A4D86; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot26.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0D962B9FF; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:20:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:20:16 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Eric Sheesley Message-ID: <20070813182016.GA56927@rot26.obsecurity.org> References: <46C08900.7030701@bcpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UugvWAfsgieZRqgk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46C08900.7030701@bcpl.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Queue file write error and swap_pager issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:20:17 -0000 --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:38:24PM -0400, Eric Sheesley wrote: > I have a Freebsd 6.2 server. For the past month or so I've been getting > various messages from postfix saying "Error: queue file write error" and > occasionally in the system logs I'll receive the following: >=20 > +swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 130435, size: 4096 > +swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 130409, size: 4096 > +swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 125548, size: 4096 >=20 > I made some modifications to amavis-new to use the clamd virus scanning > daemon instead of the command line version and most of the postfix > errors went away but I still occasionally get one. I've used the system > bios utilities to do a drive scan on both of the drives(raid 1) and they > both were fine according to that. Any ideas? The swap_pager messages may be unrelated to your postfix error, but they indicate that a swap I/O operation took more than 60 seconds to complete, which is usually due to a hardware problem (e.g. drive dropping I/O) or an extremely overloaded system (other I/O delaying the swap request for more than 60 seconds). Kris --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGwKDgWry0BWjoQKURAsWKAJ9brsDyLRGqXmqR0Pl9dRjXWU/2gwCfVcBg 7IiIcVlMma9q7XKMOoPEQAA= =9m3M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk--