swap_pager complaints but not using swap
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 24 02:17:22 PST 2009
Dieter wrote:
> AMD64 FreeBSD 7.0 2 GiB main memory
>
> My console says:
>
> login: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096
> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096
> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096
> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 22, size: 4096
>
> pstat -sk
> Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
> /dev/ad6s10 4590208 96 4590112 0%
>
> Wow, using a whole 96K of swap. I don't see any disk related
> complaints in dmesg.
>
> Is this something to worry about?
Yes, the system was *trying* to do swap I/O and timing out while doing so.
Kris
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