Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:09:45 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E9vin_Hagner?= <jsaipakoimetr@spyzone.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer Message-ID: <2387D518-CD3F-46C7-ACEE-8EF0A8D02610@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4F230B56.5070800@spyzone.fr> References: <4F230B56.5070800@spyzone.fr>
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Hi-- On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Kévin Hagner wrote: > But now, during the compilation, my entire computer has planted, and I noticed that swap_pager emmited message in buckle on the tty1 like him : > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 48002, siwe 4096 > > After a check on the web, I found that it's principally a hardware error which cause this warning: hard drive, or cables... > But it's nothing wrong in /var/log/messages, and all other files on the hard disk have, for the moment, no I/O mistakes. > > Do you have an idea of the source of my problem ? Try running: dd if=/dev/_your_disk_ of=/dev/null bs=64k conv=noerror ...or install sysutils/smartmontools port and use it to run drive diagnostics. > I'm running on a FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, the file system used is UFS, I've 2Gb RAM and no "native" swap partition. Oh. You should never configure a Unix system without at least some swap space available, and configuring at least as much swap as you have RAM (plus a little bit more) is the minimum recommendation. Regards, -- -Chuckhelp
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