From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 16 23:48:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA19604 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:48:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from root.com (root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19598; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:48:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@root.com) Received: from root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA19152; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:48:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812170748.XAA19152@root.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: any way of gleaming info from these? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:50:16 -0400." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:48:06 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, David Greenman wrote: > >> >vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 4096 at 113 >> >vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 6 >> >vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 4096 at 113 >> >vnode_pager_putpag_putpage_pager_putpages: residual I/O 4096 at 113 >> >vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 6 >> >vnode_pager_putpages: residual I/O 4096 at 113 >> > >> >maybe its totally impossible, but is there no way of detailing which drive >> >is causing this? or is it not a drive? >> >> Error 6 is ENXIO - device not configured. This might happen if the device >> is SCSI and it loses power/goes offline. I can't think of any other reasons >> offhand. > >Hrmmm...is vnode_pager_putpages a 'file system' error, or a 'swap' error? >The system is locked up right now, awaiting someone to get down to the >office and reboot it. vnode_pager_putpages is a routine, not an error (well...:-)). I don't know what is returning ENXIO, but putpages just calls the filesystem VOP_PUTPAGES entry, so you'd have to look at that. vnode_pager_putpages isn't usually called very often in a typical system - it's used when mapped/modified file pages need to be written back to the backing file, which doesn't normally happen on a typical system (modified pages are usually backed by swap, not the file). >Looking through /usr/src/sys, the error message is generated in >vm/vnode_pager.c...which, to me, would indicate swap space? No, the swap_pager pages out to swap. The vnode_pager pages out to files. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message