got "swap_pager: indefinite wait buffe" under -current

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040310103020.Y69923 at fw.reifenberger.com>, Michael Reifenberger wr
ites:
>Hi,
>under -current as of yesterday I got during the fixation of an audio CD
>using cdrecord via atapicam the following console message:
>
>swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: ad0s2a, blkno: 34107, size: 16384
>
>What does that mean?

That a disk-I/O request did not complete.

Likely cause is disk hardware or media error.

Check for console messages from ata driver.

You can try to run gstat(8) the leftmost column which shows number
of outstanding I/O requests.


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