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Date:      Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:11:49 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: deadlock or bad disk ?  RELENG_8
Message-ID:  <20100719041149.GA93978@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20100719035844.GA93487@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <201007182108.o6IL88eG043887@lava.sentex.ca> <20100718211415.GA84127@icarus.home.lan> <201007182142.o6ILgDQW044046@lava.sentex.ca> <20100719023419.GA91006@icarus.home.lan> <201007190301.o6J31Hs1045607@lava.sentex.ca> <20100719033424.GA92607@icarus.home.lan> <20100719035844.GA93487@icarus.home.lan>

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On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 08:58:44PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> I took a look at the RELENG_8 code responsible for printing this
> message: src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c
>
> [...] 
> 1086 static int
> 1087 swap_pager_getpages(vm_object_t object, vm_page_t *m, int count, int reqpage)
> 1088 {
> [...]

There was a change to this piece of code on May 13th.  See commit
1.312.2.4 below:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c

Before I pull in kib@ or alc@ to help determine if what was introduced
could cause what you're seeing, can you clarify this point?

> FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Jul 13 09:55:48 EDT 2010
>      mdtancsa at backup3.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/backup amd64
> [...]
> Its never been an issue in the past 2yrs.  The same box was RELENG_7 
> for some time and then in the past 3 months updated to RELENG_8.

Has this system run a previous version of RELENG_8 within the past 3
months, or are you seeing this issue "as a result of upgrading from
RELENG_7 to RELENG_8"?

-- 
| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
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