From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 8 04:02:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA27983 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 04:02:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA27973 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 04:01:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from minnow.render.com (minnow.render.com [193.195.178.1]) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA00866; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:59:46 GMT Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:59:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Chris Csanady cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vnode_pager_input errors... In-Reply-To: <199611081132.FAA01931@friley216.res.iastate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Chris Csanady wrote: > > > > >I recently got the following message while doing a CVSup... > > > >Nov 8 04:48:17 friley216 /kernel: vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error > >Nov 8 04:48:17 friley216 /kernel: vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) > >error, PID 1573 failure > >Nov 8 04:49:20 friley216 /kernel: pid 1573 (cvsup), uid 0: exited on signal > 6 > >(core dumped) > > > >I also recently ran into this problem consistently on some of our 2.1.5 boxes. > >From reading through some of the mail list archives, I thought that it was > >a problem that was fixed quit a while ago.. > > > >Any ideas? > > I forgot to mention a rather important peice of information. The tree I was > CVSupping into was on an nfs mounted drive. (from a 2.1.5 machine if it > matters) > I think it may be nfs related.. I just changed the implementation of NFS' asynchronous i/o which might affect this. I think these changes were post 10/4/96; could you update and see if it happens again? -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426