swap_pager indefinite wait buffer - question - SOLVED

Carsten Mattner carstenmattner at gmail.com
Thu Dec 25 13:20:00 PST 2014


On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 7:08 PM, PeerCorps Trust Fund
<ipc at peercorpstrust.org> wrote:
> I just wanted to take the opportunity update a previous post that I made to the
> list concerning a swap_pager concern. It isn't an issue at all but the fault of my
> own ignorance and hardware limits.
>
> The external drive in question was simply not pulling enough power from the
> USB port of the laptop. This was likely resulting in a stalled drive when anything
> substantial was being copied to it.
>
> This has since been solved by connecting the drive first to an externally powered
> USB hub. So, if there is anyone else out there having a similar issue, trying this
> seems to do the trick. Alternatively, just use a drive that is powered externally.
>
> Everything works beautifully now and this low cost experiment for a simple file
> server will find a home in a school classroom next year.

In Tanzania?

FreeBSD had a writeup about a set of PCBSD machines installed in Nigeria IIRC.

A blog post or other writeup to link on dragonflybsd.org would surely be nice.



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