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Date:      Wed, 7 Nov 2001 11:34:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        "Arthur W. Neilson III" <art@pilikia.net>
Cc:        "Anatoliy Dmytriyev" <tolid@plab.ku.dk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer" - what is it?
Message-ID:  <200111071934.fA7JYrX59194@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <20011107110401.C715@plab.ku.dk> <200111070915180900.14362761@smtp>

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:I had this recently as well, and assumed it was a bad block on disk.
:Does anyone know exactly what causes these messages to appear?
:
:On 11/7/01 at 11:04 AM Anatoliy Dmytriyev wrote:
:>
:>Hi all!
:>I found in the daily report such lines:
:>> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x20001, blkno: 6696,
:>> size: 4096
:>> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x20001, blkno: 2200,
:>> size: 4096
:>> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x20001, blkno: 6944,
:>> size: 4096
:>> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x20001, blkno: 84992,
:>> size: 32768
:>> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x20001, blkno: 55728,
:>> size: 4096
:>
:>What is it? Have I problems with my hard drive?
:>Please, tell me.
:>
:>Best regards,
:>Anatoliy.
:>
:>-- 
:>Anatoliy Dmytriyev <tolid@plab.ku.dk>
:>http://tolid.eu.org

    This error occurs if a process is doing a page-in and the
    page is stuck doing disk I/O for 20 or more seconds.

    Bad blocks could do it.  If so you should also see disk errors
    logged in /var/log/messages and the 'dmesg' output.

						-Matt


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