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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, K=E9vin 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
>=20
> 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.
>=20

> Do you have an idea of the source of my problem ?

Try running:

  dd if=3D/dev/_your_disk_ of=3D/dev/null bs=3D64k conv=3Dnoerror

...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,
--=20
-Chuck




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