From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 16:06:16 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 7A81616A420 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:06:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D13E13C4C5 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:06:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjmccann@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so1684893waf for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:06:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=dHAThoMdGbJMBJ/Rx+14pC3bLBZdAfLwrngXcFi6fgI=; b=WmYN45htSEL3tnH9eETOnDAZRXcLFggM0tk8NQxtKO6VqJda2x6q/7G29uYB/oQzYXQA2hkrYkeGxRAjQjPRcFz3jTQdBMHmFmIGB749Bg2rYynt44vY2QYQlSI2XDLIE1GfBunEp+X5W/Z2aMmbuSnnSyf9o2YvzhTk3LWSPnQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=kh0w6rZeA4uQNL7v+qZm+9As294qxeEaxyu+VKgnfCmNBvFOSLhGVtZHXtR3L1m5i3kzJCbFr4hX8r21N7/VhwzabgTNDhy0VckZtxK4+rMvRmkXXqKd/Z2pMWJmyrHx4ZrySOMx+n3D5813MwXFOPpzOj8M8fQA+m2vAXDWktc= Received: by 10.114.94.1 with SMTP id r1mr1065280wab.1194881900414; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:38:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.56.16 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:38:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2b5f066d0711120738p6de5d875ib9c734640b4ba7d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:38:20 -0500 From: "Brian McCann" To: freebsd-questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer 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, 12 Nov 2007 16:06:16 -0000 Hi all. I'm sure some of you have seen this, and I'm looking for some advice. I've got 2 servers now that will completely lockup (one is 6.1-p4, the other 6.2-p7), and just display this on the console: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 33, size: 4096 It repeats and continues to be frozen until I reboot the machine. The machine responds to ping, but that's about it. On one of my boxes, it appears to happen under heavy use (though this is not always the case...it's done it on me before when it's been completely idle). There should be no reason for either of these machines to swap...one of them has 4GB of RAM, the other has 2GB, and they never come close to using it all (based on our statistics). I've seen the various comments that it's probably bad hardware, but I haven't been able to find anything. I also saw there was a reference in the todo for 6.1 (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html) about this. Anyone know if there has been any updates to this? Anyone have any info that could help me out? Thanks, --Brian -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"