kern/103455: "swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer" with page file enabled (causes lockups)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:40:23AM +0000, Remco Bressers wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/103455; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Remco Bressers <rbressers at signet.nl>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, nick at nickwithers.com
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: kern/103455: "swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer" with page
> 	file enabled (causes lockups)
> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:38:21 +0100
> 
>  Hi,
>  
>  I noticed the same problem on 6.2-RELEASE on a heavily loaded storage
>  system running rsync.
>  When multiple clients connect to the rsync box and start filling up the
>  memory with file-lists, the machine (once in a while) locks up with the
>  same messages : 
>  
>  swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 43638, size: 4096
>  swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 43947, size: 32768
>  swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 44007, size: 4096
>  swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 47939, size: 32768
>  
>  The machine becomes non-responsive unfortunatly.

Are you sure it's the same, i.e. are you also using a swap file?

Kris