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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!vyzynz!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New SNAP and swap problems Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 16:51:19 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <318FE1F7.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> References: <aak2.831366925@Ra.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> Atif Ahmad Khan wrote: > Anytime the machine is under heavy load or swap is being used > heavily I start getting these errors : > > /kernel: wd0s1b: hard error reading fsbn 3226 of 3200-3263 (wd0s1 bn > 4713626; cn 4676 tn 3 sn 29)wd0: status 59<seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr> > > /kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; blkno 3200, size 32768, error 5 Yikes! I think you may have a bad spot on your disk. Have you tried formatting it and reinstalling? I would *not* make a production machine out of something reporting this error. Your drive may also be bad and merit replacement. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project