From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 9 17:28:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 906EB16A4E9 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 17:28:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54C4543D92 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 17:28:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 12522 invoked from network); 9 May 2005 17:20:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 9 May 2005 17:20:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 12261 invoked by uid 89); 9 May 2005 17:41:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (82.76.1.117) by 0 with SMTP; 9 May 2005 17:41:04 -0000 Received: from buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A5C160DD; Mon, 9 May 2005 20:28:04 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [192.168.0.10]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 9 May 2005 20:28:04 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7AB111A; Mon, 9 May 2005 20:29:04 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 20:29:03 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Chris Fedde Message-ID: <20050509202903.6e90472f@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <200505091720.j49HKHAM097093@fedde.littleton.co.us> References: <200505091720.j49HKHAM097093@fedde.littleton.co.us> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: on buh by ClamAV using ClamSMTP cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap space problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 17:28:07 -0000 On Mon, 09 May 2005 11:20:17 -0600 Chris Fedde 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: 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 [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"