Swapfile problem in 6?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:44:12PM +0100, Lars Kristiansen wrote:

> A couple of the times but not everytime the following message was
> repeatedly displayed at the console before freezing:
> 
> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 273427, size: 4096

AFAICT that is just a trigger-happy timer..it's supposed to detect
when a swap operation took too long to complete, but it also triggers
on swapfiles since they're so much less efficient (i.e. slower) than
swapping onto a bare device.

Kris
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