Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 20:29:03 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap space problems Message-ID: <20050509202903.6e90472f@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <200505091720.j49HKHAM097093@fedde.littleton.co.us> References: <200505091720.j49HKHAM097093@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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On Mon, 09 May 2005 11:20:17 -0600 Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> wrote: > Occasionaly my system hangs for a few seconds while loading a process > from swap that has been idle for some time. It could be that I'm > actualy out of swap space in these conditions, because I see this frequently > in dmesg output: > > swap_pager_getswapspace(8): failed. > > But I also see other failures that indicate that there may be a > hardware issue going on: > > swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 20114,size 45056, error 0 > ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=161663 > ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out > > Boot message for the device controller is: > > atapci0: <VIA 8235 UDMA133 controller> port > 0xfc00-0xfc0f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 17.1 on pci0 > ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 > ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 > > And the disk is > > ad0: 14648MB <Maxtor 91536U6/VA510PF0> [29762/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 > > Is there some issue relating to the configuration that I can repair? > Or am I seeing a real hardware problem? Are you by any chance copying from one disk to an other when this happen ? I'm this case I'm getting this kind of errors (not necessarily limited to swap) on VIA8235/8237. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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