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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help on vnode_pager_input: I/O read error
Date: 30 Jul 1996 21:33:36 GMT
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jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) wrote:

> Would someone tell me: "what does this error mean?"
> 
> vnode_pager_input: I/O read error
> vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 2051 failure
> vnode_pager_input: I/O read error
> vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 2051 failure
> vnode_pager_input: I/O read error
> vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 2051 failure

Probably a disk error.  If it's on a NFS file system, it's less
surprising (the vnode_pager doesn't seem to do a particularly good job
on NFS, and it could even be that the file disappeared on the server).

-- 
cheers, J"org

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