On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 12:49:48AM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > Dear folks, > > I have a box indicating the following sometimes: > "swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 262169, size: 4096" > > It's running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE, with two Maxtor 7Y250P0 hard disks > attached to Intel ICH5 UDMA100 controller with hw.ata.wc disabled. > > Does this indicate a hardware issue, or some bugs elsewhere?
In that configuration, probably a hardware issue. Is it always the same block? This message triggers as a false positive in other cases when swapping is too slow, like if you swap to a swapfile on a heavily loaded filesystem. Kris
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