swapfile being eaten by unknown process

Uwe Doering gemini at geminix.org
Wed Feb 16 01:01:48 PST 2005


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:11:31PM +0000, John wrote:
> 
>>Another data point - I see this in my nightly security logs:
>>
>>swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: ad0s1f, blkno: 28190, size: 4096
>>
>>maybe there's a bad block on the swap partition?? 
> 
> That's what this usually means, yes.

Or the whole disk drive is about to die.  That's the situation where 
I've seen this message most of the time.  An indicator of this would be 
block numbers that appear to be at random.

    Uwe
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