Re: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed

From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green_at_freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:36:19 -0400 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:09 UTC

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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