Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 03:16:25 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: kris@obsecurity.org Cc: spamrefuse@yahoo.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Swapfile problem in 6? Message-ID: <200601021116.k02BGPKJ004388@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20051118010106.GB47900@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 17 Nov, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:33:50PM -0800, Rob wrote: >> --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: >> > >> > I commented on it elsewhere in this thread. >> >> Do you mean your comment on the swap_pager error: >> >> Quote: >> "AFAICT that is just a trigger-happy timer..it's >> supposed to detect when a swap operation took too >> long to complete, but it also triggers on swapfiles >> since they're so much less efficient (i.e. slower) >> than swapping onto a bare device." >> EndQuote. > > Right: "harmless warning" not "error". This isn't totally harmless because the pagedaemon is only allowed a handful of outstanding writes. It gets stuck when it runs out.
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