Re: Swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2012-01-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Kévin Hagner jsaipakoim...@spyzone.fr:

  I'm running on a FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, the file system used is UFS, I've 2Gb 
  RAM and no native swap partition.

 Oh.  You should never configure a Unix system without at least some swap 
 space available, and configuring at least as much swap as you have RAM (plus 
 a little
 +bit more) is the minimum recommendation.

 Regards,

 -Chuck

Does that mean the amount of swap space needed increases with amount of RAM?

Is that for the purpose of accommodating possible core dump?  This is difficult 
to achieve with a system that has generous RAM, when installing to a USB stick.

I suppose one could use swap space on a hard drive in that case.

Tom
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Swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2012-01-27 Thread Kévin Hagner

Hello everybody :)

I'm trying to compil www/libxul, but I haven't enough RAM to done it 
correctly (cc1plus killed by the kernel).
So I mount a swap file with mdconfig and swapon. The new swap seems to 
be correctly added (I checked with swapinfo and top).


But now, during the compilation, my entire computer has planted, and I 
noticed that swap_pager emmited message in buckle on the tty1 like him :

swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 48002, siwe 4096

After a check on the web, I found that it's principally a hardware error 
which cause this warning: hard drive, or cables...
But it's nothing wrong in /var/log/messages, and all other files on the 
hard disk have, for the moment, no I/O mistakes.


Do you have an idea of the source of my problem ?
I'm running on a FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, the file system used is UFS, I've 
2Gb RAM and no native swap partition.


I thank you for the time which you dedicated to my request ;-)
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Re: Swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2012-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi--

On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Kévin Hagner wrote:
 But now, during the compilation, my entire computer has planted, and I 
 noticed that swap_pager emmited message in buckle on the tty1 like him :
 swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 48002, siwe 4096
 
 After a check on the web, I found that it's principally a hardware error 
 which cause this warning: hard drive, or cables...
 But it's nothing wrong in /var/log/messages, and all other files on the hard 
 disk have, for the moment, no I/O mistakes.
 

 Do you have an idea of the source of my problem ?

Try running:

  dd if=/dev/_your_disk_ of=/dev/null bs=64k conv=noerror

...or install sysutils/smartmontools port and use it to run drive diagnostics.

 I'm running on a FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, the file system used is UFS, I've 2Gb 
 RAM and no native swap partition.

Oh.  You should never configure a Unix system without at least some swap space 
available, and configuring at least as much swap as you have RAM (plus a little 
bit more) is the minimum recommendation.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck

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Re: 7.0-R freezes with: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj

2008-06-04 Thread Chris St Denis
I've been getting this in the logs recently on a 6.2 system. No 
stability issues, but it is concerning.


swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 93, size: 4096
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 183, size: 4096

The server has always been under heavy load, but the load isn't any 
higher lately. And I'm only using like 1324K of swap so it's not like 
I'm heavily swapping.


It's running off an adaptec based raid and arcconf says it's fine.



Wojciech Puchar wrote:

Hi,

the SMART-status looks ok!

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

Maybe other applications causes high I/O load?


no reason to fail.


Howto determine this? Other suggestions?


Cheers,
Oskar


Kris Kennaway schrieb am 02.06.2008 20:58:

Oskar Eyb wrote:

Hello,

on a  7.0-RELEASE maschine I have now again a big problem with 
freezing.



swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 388449, size: 
4096
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 388452, size: 
20480
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 387805, size: 
16384



# swapctl -l
Device:   1024-blocks Used:
/dev/mirror/gm0s1b   1048576485332
/dev/md01048576485316


What to do against this, is there a patch available?


Your disk is taking an enormously long time to reply to swap I/O, 
which is what is eventually timing out with those errors.  Check 
that it is not failing.


Kris
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Re: 7.0-R freezes with: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj

2008-06-03 Thread Oskar Eyb

Hi,

the SMART-status looks ok!

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

Maybe other applications causes high I/O load?
Howto determine this? Other suggestions?


Cheers,
Oskar


Kris Kennaway schrieb am 02.06.2008 20:58:

Oskar Eyb wrote:

Hello,

on a  7.0-RELEASE maschine I have now again a big problem with freezing.


swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 388449, size: 4096
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 388452, size: 20480
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 387805, size: 16384


# swapctl -l
Device:   1024-blocks Used:
/dev/mirror/gm0s1b   1048576485332
/dev/md01048576485316


What to do against this, is there a patch available?


Your disk is taking an enormously long time to reply to swap I/O, which 
is what is eventually timing out with those errors.  Check that it is 
not failing.


Kris
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Re: 7.0-R freezes with: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj

2008-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar

Hi,

the SMART-status looks ok!

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

Maybe other applications causes high I/O load?


no reason to fail.


Howto determine this? Other suggestions?


Cheers,
Oskar


Kris Kennaway schrieb am 02.06.2008 20:58:

Oskar Eyb wrote:

Hello,

on a  7.0-RELEASE maschine I have now again a big problem with freezing.


swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 388449, size: 4096
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 388452, size: 20480
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 387805, size: 16384


# swapctl -l
Device:   1024-blocks Used:
/dev/mirror/gm0s1b   1048576485332
/dev/md01048576485316


What to do against this, is there a patch available?


Your disk is taking an enormously long time to reply to swap I/O, which is 
what is eventually timing out with those errors.  Check that it is not 
failing.


Kris
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7.0-R freezes with: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj

2008-06-02 Thread Oskar Eyb

Hello,

on a  7.0-RELEASE maschine I have now again a big problem with freezing.


swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 388449, size: 4096
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 388452, size: 20480
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 387805, size: 16384


# swapctl -l
Device:   1024-blocks Used:
/dev/mirror/gm0s1b   1048576485332
/dev/md01048576485316


What to do against this, is there a patch available?


Best Regards,
Oskar

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Re: 7.0-R freezes with: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj

2008-06-02 Thread Kris Kennaway

Oskar Eyb wrote:

Hello,

on a  7.0-RELEASE maschine I have now again a big problem with freezing.


swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 388449, size: 4096
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 388452, size: 20480
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 387805, size: 16384


# swapctl -l
Device:   1024-blocks Used:
/dev/mirror/gm0s1b   1048576485332
/dev/md01048576485316


What to do against this, is there a patch available?


Your disk is taking an enormously long time to reply to swap I/O, which 
is what is eventually timing out with those errors.  Check that it is 
not failing.


Kris
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swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2007-11-12 Thread Brian McCann
Hi all.  I'm sure some of you have seen this, and I'm looking for some
advice.  I've got 2 servers now that will completely lockup (one is
6.1-p4, the other 6.2-p7), and just display this on the console:

swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 33, size: 4096

It repeats and continues to be frozen until I reboot the machine.  The
machine responds to ping, but that's about it.  On one of my boxes, it
appears to happen under heavy use (though this is not always the
case...it's done it on me before when it's been completely idle).
There should be no reason for either of these machines to swap...one
of them has 4GB of RAM, the other has 2GB, and they never come close
to using it all (based on our statistics).

I've seen the various comments that it's probably bad hardware, but I
haven't been able to find anything.  I also saw there was a reference
in the todo for 6.1 (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html)
about this.  Anyone know if there has been any updates to this?

Anyone have any info that could help me out?

Thanks,
--Brian

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Re: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Swiger

On Nov 12, 2007, at 7:38 AM, Brian McCann wrote:

Hi all.  I'm sure some of you have seen this, and I'm looking for some
advice.  I've got 2 servers now that will completely lockup (one is
6.1-p4, the other 6.2-p7), and just display this on the console:

swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 33, size: 4096

It repeats and continues to be frozen until I reboot the machine.


It means that the swap system was unable to retrieve info from the  
disk in a reasonable period of time, and generally is a strong sign  
that the disk drive is in the final stages of failing.  Running  
smartmonutils or a manufacturer's test utility is recommended


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swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj (...)

2006-09-18 Thread Nick Withers
G'day all,

Just wondering whether anyone knows any details regarding
the swap_pager warnings bug noted on the 6.1-RELEASE Release
Engineering to do page
(http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html). Specifically,
a PR number would be excellent (I'm assuming one exists).

I believe that this issue has been biting me for a while now (or
at least it only began appearing after I enabled a swap file on
a lowly machine which had to have bad RAM removed that I'm too
cheap / poor to replace) and often results in machine lockups.

I'd love to see it addressed (assuming that this is indeed
what's biting me, which I'm fairly sure of*) before
6.2-RELEASE (probably a little unlikely, I guess) and would be
happy to test patches / etc..

Thanks all!

* I _could_ disable the swap file and leave the thing belting
away for a while to see if the problem doesn't reoccur, but
it'll mean a few processes getting killed here and there due to
lack of available memory...
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swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

2006-05-28 Thread Per olof Ljungmark

HP ProLiant ML150, 6.1-STABLE, problem have persisted since 6.0-STABLE
Stops responding every one-two weeks, requires power cycling
Server is remote but went to see it today and the following message was 
printed on console repeatedly:

swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 52, size: 4096

Searching the list did not return a definitive answer, did not find a PR 
either.


Nothing logged
AFAIK the system hardly swaps at all

Is there a workaround for this? Should I assume it's a hw problem? 
Change DMA mode? Disable ACPI? Change to a scsi disk for system? I could 
accept slower performance if a tradeoff is required.


dmesg follows:

Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Thu May 18 07:19:43 CEST 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STUFFER
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (2992.52-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf43  Stepping = 3

Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE
  Features2=0x641dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14
  AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM
  Logical CPUs per core: 2
real memory  = 1073152000 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1041211392 (992 MB)
MPTable: INTELTumwater
ioapic0: Assuming intbase of 0
ioapic1: Assuming intbase of 24
ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic1 Version 2.0 irqs 24-47 on motherboard
cpu0 on motherboard
pcib0: MPTable Host-PCI bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: PCI bus on pcib0
pcib0: unable to route slot 2 INTA
pcib0: unable to route slot 3 INTA
pcib0: unable to route slot 29 INTB
pcib0: unable to route slot 29 INTD
pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge irq 10 at device 2.0 on pci0
pci1: PCI bus on pcib1
pcib2: MPTable PCI-PCI bridge irq 10 at device 3.0 on pci0
pci2: PCI bus on pcib2
bge0: Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4101 mem 
0xdc10-0xdc10 irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2

miibus0: MII bus on bge0
brgphy0: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 
1000baseTX-FDX, auto

bge0: Ethernet address: 00:16:35:b1:32:0b
pcib3: MPTable PCI-PCI bridge at device 28.0 on pci0
pci3: PCI bus on pcib3
twe0: 3ware Storage Controller. Driver version 1.50.01.002 port 
0x2400-0x240f mem 0xdc80-0xdcff irq 25 at device 2.0 on pci3

twe0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE8S 1.05.00.068, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.048
atapci0: Marvell 88SX6041 SATA300 controller port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 
0xdc30-0xdc3f irq 27 at device 4.0 on pci3

ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0
ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0
ata4: ATA channel 2 on atapci0
ata5: ATA channel 3 on atapci0
uhci0: UHCI (generic) USB controller port 0x1400-0x141f irq 16 at 
device 29.0 on pci0

uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: UHCI (generic) USB controller port 0x1420-0x143f irq 5 at 
device 29.1 on pci0

uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: base peripheral at device 29.4 (no driver attached)
pci0: base peripheral, interrupt controller at device 29.5 (no driver 
attached)
ehci0: Intel 6300ESB USB 2.0 controller mem 0xdc001400-0xdc0017ff irq 
11 at device 29.7 on pci0

ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb2: EHCI version 1.0
usb2: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1
usb2: Intel 6300ESB USB 2.0 controller on ehci0
usb2: USB revision 2.0
uhub2: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
pcib4: MPTable PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0
pci4: PCI bus on pcib4
pci4: display, VGA at device 4.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: ISA bus on isab0
atapci1: Intel 6300ESB UDMA100 controller port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1440-0x144f at device 31.1 on pci0

ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci1
ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci1
pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: ISA Option ROMs at iomem 
0xc-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc97ff,0xc9800-0xcdfff,0xce000-0xcefff,0xdc000-0xd 
on isa0

atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 
on isa0

fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like

swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer - fixed (sort of)

2006-02-10 Thread John .
Hello list

A month or so ago I noticed that my server was freezing up. It would
slowly recover, but there were 10 or so entries like this:

kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blk
no: 140947, size: 32768
Feb 10 13:26:56 shell kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blk
no: 101732, size: 4096
Feb 10 13:32:57 shell kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blk
no: 86705, size: 32768
Feb 10 14:00:19 shell kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blk
no: 94369, size: 16384

Eventually, /var would fill up as well as swap and the system would
lock solid. I thought maybe there was a bad sector on swap, so played
around a bit with deleting and re-creating swap files, even made an
aux swap file and deleted the two real ones, to no avail. I upgraded
from freebsd-4.11 to 5.4 and then up to 6.1-prerelease and the problem
was still there. gstat(8) was still showing queued requests in the
leftmost column. The disk is an ibm deskstar. So I downloaded the
utilities software and ran strenuous testing against the disk, which
reported no errors.

Everywhere I looked on the lists, it pointed to bad cable or hardware.
The disk showed in dmesg like this:

Feb  9 21:22:41 shell kernel: ad0: 39266MB IC35L040AVER07 0 ER4OA44A at ata0-m
aster UDMA100

I thought I'd try running it in safe mode. dmesg now shows the disk like this:

ad0: 39266MB IC35L040AVER07 0 ER4OA44A at ata0-master PIO4

and no errors!

Is this a bug with the ata driver or a problem with the device?

--
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swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer but no disk errors

2003-01-07 Thread Bruce Campbell

This document:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-
1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#INDEFINITE-WAIT-BUFFER

includes:

5.30. 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 actually bad, you will also 
see disk errors in /var/log/messages and in the output of dmesg. Otherwise, 
check your cables and connections.

I am seeing occasional swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer on 4 systems under a
heavy simultaneous sequential i/o test on ATA devices ad0 and ad1 (on the
same channel).  swap is on ad0.  ad1 is mounted as /test and ad1 is filled
to capacity and read back repeatedly.  ad0 is filled to maybe 50%
capacitity and read back repeatedly.

System hardware is:

http://www.freebsd.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Freebsd/IntelP4

o/s is:

FreeBSD ecserv1.uwaterloo.ca 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct  9 
15:08:34 GMT 2002 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

I am not using tagged queueing.  Both disks are reported as UDMA33.

Logs are below.  There are no disk errors.  During the test, ad0 and ad1
are each reading or writing around 25 megabytes per second.  Load
average is around 0.25, but system is very slow to log in to, or
to respond to keyboard, during the test.

Same test on 4 dual processor AMD systems (with the same disks) does not
yield this particular problem. 

Same test with just one disk under test does not yield this problem.

Under normal type usage, the problem never happens.  I'm just reporting
this to indicate that there appears to be some other cause than disk
errors for this problem.

Logs of 4 systems are:

Jan  5 00:00:00 ecserv2 newsyslog[1784]: logfile turned over
Jan  5 21:33:07 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 640, size: 4096
Jan  5 21:33:37 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 640, size: 4096
Jan  5 22:45:21 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 432, size: 4096
Jan  5 22:46:18 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 432, size: 4096
Jan  5 22:46:18 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 432, size: 4096
Jan  6 00:00:00 ecserv2 newsyslog[9854]: logfile turned over
Jan  6 00:00:00 ecserv2 newsyslog[9854]: logfile turned over
Jan  6 01:50:20 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 312, size: 4096
Jan  6 01:51:18 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 312, size: 4096
Jan  6 02:40:37 ecserv2 /kernel: pid 9894 (file1), uid 0 on /test: file system 
full
Jan  6 07:56:50 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 264, size: 4096
Jan  6 07:57:02 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 272, size: 4096
Jan  6 08:56:55 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 328, size: 4096
Jan  6 09:40:33 ecserv2 /kernel: pid 10624 (file1), uid 0 on /test: file system 
full
Jan  6 10:46:50 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 432, size: 4096
Jan  6 10:46:50 ecserv2 last message repeated 4 times
Jan  6 12:55:21 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 432, size: 4096
Jan  6 12:56:40 ecserv2 last message repeated 3 times
Jan  6 16:39:44 ecserv2 /kernel: pid 2 (file1), uid 0 on /test: file system 
full
Jan  6 19:45:20 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 432, size: 4096
Jan  6 20:56:51 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 288, size: 4096
Jan  6 20:58:15 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 312, size: 4096
Jan  6 20:58:45 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 312, size: 4096
Jan  6 20:58:45 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 328, size: 4096
Jan  6 22:56:51 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 344, size: 4096
Jan  6 23:05:40 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 432, size: 4096
Jan  6 23:38:43 ecserv2 /kernel: pid 11570 (file1), uid 0 on /test: file system 
full
Jan  7 00:00:00 ecserv2 newsyslog[11731]: logfile turned over
Jan  7 00:00:00 ecserv2 newsyslog[11731]: logfile turned over
Jan  7 01:46:23 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 
#ad/0x20001, blkno: 528, size: 4096
Jan  7 02:56:51 ecserv2 /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device