From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 21:08:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2DE16A420 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:08:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca [128.100.216.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A3D43D46 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:08:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fields.fields.utoronto.ca (fields.localdomain [192.168.216.11]) by fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields 6.0) with ESMTP id j8EL860r017347 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:08:06 -0400 Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fields.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields WS 6.0) with ESMTP id j8EL866P009609; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:08:06 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E74BB51562; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:25:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:25:43 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ivan Voras Message-ID: <20050914192543.GA79143@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050914211535.L97204@geri.cc.fer.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050914211535.L97204@geri.cc.fer.hr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ENOMEM in swap_pager X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:08:10 -0000 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDKHk3Wry0BWjoQKURAvLYAKCdb3g+jh7z+g0Ov2pwh5IuJax9mACgtmAO A+XhEEMxazxG18W8gVh4WSw= =yAui -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--