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, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"