Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:00:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: indefinite wait buffer ?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110250858340.24526-100000@athena.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <3BD80F66.323030F0@Thehousleys.net>
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, James Housley wrote: > On one of my web servers I found this in the "security check" email this morning. > > xxxx.xxxxxx.net kernel log messages: > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x20001, blkno: 8464, size: 4096 > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x20001, blkno: 38144, size: 8192 > > What does that mean? And is it serious? Quite. Your machine needed to move data to swap, but your hard drive decided to timeout. If the hard drive doesn't come back, your machine would have hung. This usually means that your hard drive is seriously troubled. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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