On Thu, 2006-Aug-17 15:18:21 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:24:48PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Thursday 17 August 2006 04:20, Peter van Heusden wrote: >> > kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 151698, >> > size: 28672 > >This can indicate that your swap disk is failing (or you are using a >nonstandard swap setup like swapping to a file); it means that the >kernel timed out trying to read/write from swap.
I think this can also mean that another device on that channel/bus is failing and tying up the bus for an extended period. I think I've seen this error from an IDE disk when the CD-ROM slave on the same bus was flaky. -- Peter Jeremy
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