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Date:      Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:25:43 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ENOMEM in swap_pager
Message-ID:  <20050914192543.GA79143@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050914211535.L97204@geri.cc.fer.hr>
References:  <20050914211535.L97204@geri.cc.fer.hr>

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:20:48PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> On a P3 server with 1GB of memory, every now and then (about twice a=20
> month) I get a log full of errors like this:
>=20
> swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 167,size 4096, error 12
> swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 182,size 4096, error 12
> swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 199,size 8192, error 12
> swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 12456,size 20480, error 12
> swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 222,size 8192, error 12
>=20
> The server runs fine otherwise, and it doesn't seem to affect application=
s=20
> in any way I'm able to detect. It's running latest 5.4-RELEASE, swap is=
=20
> on a SCSI disk, single processor.
>=20
> IIRC GEOM should handle ENOMEMs by retrying the IO, but I'm asking just i=
n=20
> case - are these errors something I should worry about?

I/O errors suggest your disk is failing.

Kris

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