ENOMEM in swap_pager

2005-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On a P3 server with 1GB of memory, every now and then (about twice a month) I get a log full of errors like this: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 167,size 4096, error 12 swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 182,size 4096, error 12 swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed;

Re: ENOMEM in swap_pager

2005-09-14 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Kris Kennaway wrote this message on Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 15:25 -0400: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:20:48PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: On a P3 server with 1GB of memory, every now and then (about twice a month) I get a log full of errors like this: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed;

Re: ENOMEM in swap_pager

2005-09-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Sep 14, 2005, at 4:13 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: IIRC GEOM should handle ENOMEMs by retrying the IO, but I'm asking just in case - are these errors something I should worry about? I/O errors suggest your disk is failing. Unless for some reason his disk is running out of memory: