Re: faq/troubleshoot.html#indefinite-wait-buffer has the direction of transfer wrong (head -r326888 /usr/src/)

On 16 December 2017 at 10:47, Mark Millard <markmi_at_dsl-only.net> wrote:
> I got a "swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer" notice and looked
> it up. (This was on a rpi2 booted (kernel and world) from a
> USB SSD, swap partition in use instead of a swap file. It
> was building devel/cmake via poudriere-devel .)
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/troubleshoot.html#indefinite-wait-buffer
> reads like it is for page-out to disk:
>
>
> QUOTE
> 5.9.
>
> What does the error swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: mean?
>
> This means that a process is trying to page memory to disk, and the page attempt has hung trying to access the disk for more than 20 seconds. It might be caused by bad blocks on the disk drive, disk wiring, cables, or any other disk I/O-related hardware. If the drive itself is bad, disk errors will appear in /var/log/messages and in the output of dmesg. Otherwise, check the cables and connections.
> ENDQUOTE
>
>
> But the code containing the message is for "swread":
> (head -r326888)

If I understand correctly this is fixed by change "trying to page to"
to "trying to page from" ?  In other words this happens on swap-in,
not swap-out.

-- 
Eitan Adler