From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 20: 4:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.ASARian.org (pooh.ASARian.org [216.21.171.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BA537B404 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 20:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fuzzy@localhost.ASARian.org [127.0.0.1]) by pooh.ASARian.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4M2tMQ76928; Tue, 21 May 2002 22:55:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 22:55:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Fuzzy To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error msg: /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: ... In-Reply-To: <20020522021022.GB47043@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: X-No-Archive: Yes Organization: ASARian Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 thanks.... since we are not seeing disk I/O errors I guess its the wiring. the drive is an ATA100 and the onboard controler is ATA66m but we get the using ATA33 message even though its connected via an ATA100 (80 wire) cable. maybe the cable is bad. thanks :) Fuz On Wed, 22 May 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-05-21 12:09, Fuzzy wrote: > > > > I get these periodically, the system appears to freeze for a while > > then picks up and continues. I tried changing the swap slice & partition > > ... > > This is answered in the FAQ :) > http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#INDEFINITE-WAIT-BUFFER > > -- _____ __ __ ____ ____ __ __ / ___// // //__ )/__ )\ \/ / / __/ / // / / /__ / /__\ / (_/ (____/ <____/<____//_/ President, ASARian Inc. Sys Admin, ASARian.org Admin Contact for the ASARian.org domain. fuzzy@asarian.org -- PGP 2.6.3 Key fingerprint = 56 64 1D D9 65 53 B2 20 79 97 EF 45 18 FE 19 4E finger fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org for public key. ASARian Inc. provides free internet access to survivors of sexual abuse. We are a not-for-profit organization (501(c)3). ASARian.org takes its name from the usenet newsgroup alt.sexual.abuse.recovery, (since replaced by alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.moderated due to spam). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message