indefinite wait buffer: Does this indicate hardware issue?

[Stanislaw Halik]

Xin LI <delphij at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a box indicating the following sometimes:
> "swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 262169, size: 4096"

> It's running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE, with two Maxtor 7Y250P0 hard disks
> attached to Intel ICH5 UDMA100 controller with hw.ata.wc disabled.

> Does this indicate a hardware issue, or some bugs elsewhere?

are you using swapfiles? swap memory through files's performance is kind
of lower than in swap partitions and it might be the cause. i've got
same messages from a server with swap file, but nothing which would
affect stability.

-- 
Stanisław Halik, http://tehran.lain.pl
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