From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 12 1:38:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europa.salford.ac.uk (europa.salford.ac.uk [146.87.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7D8D154F3 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 01:38:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 8337 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2000 09:38:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 8331 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2000 09:38:02 -0000 Received: from plato.salford.ac.uk (146.87.255.76) by europa.salford.ac.uk with SMTP; 12 Jan 2000 09:38:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 5376 invoked by uid 141); 12 Jan 2000 09:37:37 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:37:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Powell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What does spec_getpages error mean? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Installed 3.4 on a machine and upgraded yesterday to 3.4-S (possibly coincidental). Machine seems okay. Will do a "make -j300 world" no problem. However, a non-stress test, running general commands, produces errors similar to the following: spec_getpages: I/O read failure: (error code=5) size: 16384, resid: 16384, a_count=16384, valid 0x0 nread: 0, reqpage=0, pindex: 0, pcount: 4 Leaving top running overnight and I find in the morning: # top Segmentation fault Jan 12 09:31:26 pan /kernel: spec_getpages: I/O read failure: (error code=5) 31:26 pan /kernel: spec_getpages: I/O read failure: (error code=5) # Jan 12 09:31:26 pan /kernel: spec_getpages: I/O read failure: (error code=5) Jan 12 09:31:26 pan /kernel: size: 36864, resid: 36864, a_count: 36864, valid: 0x0 Jan 12 09:31:26 pan /kernel: size: 36864, resid: 36864, a_count: 36864, valid: 0x0 Jan 12 09:31:26 pan /kernel: nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 9 Jan 12 09:31:26 pan /kernel: nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 9 Jan 12 09:31:26 pan /kernel: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 55845 (top) Jan 12 09:31:26 pan /kernel: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 55845 (top) Is this bad hardware? Or something more subtle? Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message