From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Feb 2 10: 7:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B6837B503; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:06:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f12I6x556847; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:06:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:06:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200102021806.f12I6x556847@earth.backplane.com> To: Robert Watson Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: long hangs running vmware -- vm system interactions? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org :I've also noticed that I get messages like these during the startup of :windows under VMware (possibly a property of the wiring behavior :previously described): : :Feb 2 10:58:21 curry /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: ad0s1b, blkno: 288, size: 4096 :Feb 2 10:58:22 curry /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: ad0s1b, blkno: 376, size: 4096 :Feb 2 10:58:22 curry /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: ad0s1b, blkno: 1536, size: 16384 : :Normally I'd think this was an impending IDE drive failure, only a number :of others have reported seeing this behavior under -CURRENT also. Don't :know if it's a product of VMWare, the VM system, or the ATA driver... : :Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project This message occurs when the system is trying to swap pages in and I/O queued to the swap device (aka hard drive) does not complete after 20 seconds. The swapper will still wait until the I/O completes. So something is tying up your IDE bus for 20+ seconds. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message