On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:58:21PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Erwin Lansing wrote: > > > > The Danish part of ftp.freebsd.org (ftp.beastie.tdk.net) does not seem > > > to respond, I have poked one of the admins, but since it's late night > > > here in Denmark, it will probably be some hours before anyone can look > > > at the problem. > > > > > beatie paniced at about 3 am CEST and was rebooted. > > > > I don't know what caused the panic, but I see quite a lot of: > > Oct 23 04:51:29 ftp /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #da/0x2 0001, blkno: 544, size: 4096 > > Oct 23 04:52:07 ftp /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #da/0x2 0001, blkno: 544, size: 4096 > > The swap pager will wait hz*20 (20 seconds) for pages to be read back in > from the swap space -- if it doesn't hear back in that time, it generates > the above warning and then continue waiting. Typically, that kind of wait > might occur because of a hardware problem. Did you see any related > console output from the controller/device driver? Typically having swap > space disappear out from under the system is not good for the health of > the system... > Also my thoughts that a disk is dying, but the controller is reporting everything as optimal. There should also be enough memory, so it's not really using swap space. I'll keep a close look with it, but this is really bad timing :(
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