From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 5:47:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0C337B407 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 05:47:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jacques.Beigbeder@free.fr) Received: from trefle.ens.fr (trefle.ens.fr [129.199.96.17]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f61ClAb83660 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:47:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (beig@localhost) by trefle.ens.fr (8.10.1/jb-1.1) X-Authentication-Warning: trefle.ens.fr: beig set sender to Jacques.Beigbeder@free.fr using -f Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:47:10 +0200 From: Jacques Beigbeder To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer? Message-ID: <20010701144710.A3247@trefle.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hardware: PC Dell OS: FreeBSD 3.3 (november 1999) Kernel: GENERIC Yesterday, this very important host on my network failed with: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x20401, blkno:XXX, size: 4096 (2 different values shown for XXX). Using mail archives, I found this message can occur when there is some hardware failure on the disk. But: . no message appears in /var/log/all.log (*.* -> all.log) . even if i try: dd if=/dev/da0s1b of=/dev/null ^ swap partition I also see that the file swap_pager.c was modified between FreeBSD 3.4 and FreeBSD 4.2. So is my problem really hardware? Or is there a software fix? Thanks in advance. -- Jacques Beigbeder | Jacques.Beigbeder@ens.fr Service de Prestations Informatiques | http://www.spi.ens.fr Ecole normale supérieure | 45 rue d'Ulm |Tel : (+33 1)1 44 32 37 96 F75230 Paris cedex 05 |Fax : (+33 1)1 44 32 20 80 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message