From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 12: 4:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (unknown [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BD837B4EC for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:04:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f11K4ZM01063; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:04:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200102012004.f11K4ZM01063@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Cc: Max Khon , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x20001, blkno: 288, size: 4096 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:53:23 CST." <200102011653.f11GrNn00943@guild.plethora.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 12:04:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message , 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message