freebsd stable - Sep 2005 - ENOMEM in swap_pager

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; blkno 199,size 8192, error 12
swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 12456,size 20480, error 12
swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 222,size 8192, error 12

The server runs fine otherwise, and it doesn't seem to affect applications 
in any way I'm able to detect. It's running latest 5.4-RELEASE, swap is 
on a SCSI disk, single processor.

IIRC GEOM should handle ENOMEMs by retrying the IO, but I'm asking just in 
case - are these errors something I should worry about?


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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; 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; blkno 199,size 8192, error 12
> swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 12456,size 20480, error 12
> swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 222,size 8192, error 12
> 
> The server runs fine otherwise, and it doesn't seem to affect
applications
> in any way I'm able to detect. It's running latest 5.4-RELEASE,
swap is
> on a SCSI disk, single processor.
> 
> 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.

Kris
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