Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 12:04:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Cc: Max Khon <fjoe@newst.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x20001, blkno: 288, size: 4096 Message-ID: <200102012004.f11K4ZM01063@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:53:23 CST." <200102011653.f11GrNn00943@guild.plethora.net>
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> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102012248001.7223-100000@localhost>, Max Khon writes
> :
> >what does the following error message mean:
> >swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x20001, blkno: 288,
> >size: 4096
>
> >it happens when burncd is fixating disk
>
> My intuitive guess is that the fixate command has tied up a relevant bus,
> and the kernel is bored.
That's exactly it. More specifically, the swap pager is timing out on a
request to read/write from swap because the bus is busy. You could move
the burner to another IDE channel to work around this.
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