swap space problems

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at apropo.ro
Mon May 9 10:28:07 PDT 2005


On Mon, 09 May 2005 11:20:17 -0600
Chris Fedde <chris at fedde.littleton.co.us> wrote:

> Occasionaly my system hangs for a few seconds while loading a process
> from swap that has been idle for some time.  It could be that I'm
> actualy out of swap space in these conditions, because I see this frequently
> in dmesg output:
> 
>     swap_pager_getswapspace(8): failed.
> 
> But I also see other failures that indicate that there may be a
> hardware issue going on:
> 
>     swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 20114,size 45056, error 0
>     ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=161663
>     ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
> 
> Boot message for the device controller is:
> 
>     atapci0: <VIA 8235 UDMA133 controller> port
> 	0xfc00-0xfc0f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 17.1 on pci0
>     ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
>     ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
> 
> And the disk is 
> 
>     ad0: 14648MB <Maxtor 91536U6/VA510PF0> [29762/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
> 
> Is there some issue relating to the configuration that I can repair? 
> Or am I seeing a real hardware problem?  

Are you by any chance copying from one disk to an other when this happen
? I'm this case I'm getting this kind of errors (not necessarily limited
to swap) on VIA8235/8237.


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