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Subject: Re: indefinite wait buffer ??
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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


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