swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:05:58PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote:
> I just saw a bunch of these:
>  
> swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 3136,size 36864, error 12
> swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 3145,size 65536, error 12
> swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 2879,size 4096, error 12
> 
> on a machine running this:
> 
> FreeBSD dirk.no.domain 5.3-BETA1 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 #1: Tue Aug 24
> 03:18:01 EST 2004     root at dirk.no.domain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
> i386
> 
> I think it might be ENOMEM from a geom when trying to g_clone_bio. The
> machine appears fine now, i'm writing this message on it. Is it bad?

It shouldn't happen, but you should notice no ill effects (that is, the
page isn't lost, it just wasn't paged out and there's a few bytes less
that the pager could do at the moment).

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