[5202] in Hotline Meeting
problems with swap on ithake
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jud@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 23 11:12:16 1991
From: jud@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: cc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, davis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, jud@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 23 May 91 11:11:46 EDT
Ithake, the VS II in my office against the left wall, has been
having problems with swap space. Typically I will get a console error
message "Error in swap" on device ra1b. The block numbers differ
on each occasion. The affected process dies, and then the problem reoccurs if
I try to rerun the dead program. If I reboot, the problem goes away.
I have only seen the problem on ra1b, although I also use ra0b for swap.
I suspect that there is a problem in the cables, the disk controller or
the power supply. I believe the winchester is OK, because the block numbers
keep changing. I can not reboot the next time this occurs, but I would
then like to get rapid attention from hotline. Or is there a diagnostic
that would exercise ra1b? Since there is nothing but swap out there,
there shouldn't be aby problem with running a destructive diagnostic.
Thanks.
Jud
