Unexplained kernel panic on 5-STABLE (now in 6-STABLE)

[Peter Jeremy]

On Thu, 2006-Aug-17 15:18:21 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:24:48PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Thursday 17 August 2006 04:20, Peter van Heusden wrote:
>> > kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 151698,
>> > size: 28672
>
>This can indicate that your swap disk is failing (or you are using a
>nonstandard swap setup like swapping to a file); it means that the
>kernel timed out trying to read/write from swap.

I think this can also mean that another device on that channel/bus
is failing and tying up the bus for an extended period.  I think I've
seen this error from an IDE disk when the CD-ROM slave on the same
bus was flaky.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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