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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:23:15PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-Feb-26 11:24:26 +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> >I don't have too much insight into the syncer (I've CC'd phk to victimize
> >him with more e-mail as this is an area he takes great interested in).  A
> >couple of questions:=20
> >
> >(1) Have you tried turning on options PREEMPTION?=20
>=20
> I haven't yet.  I will look at this but some of the mailing list comments
> made me think it wasn't totally reliable yet.

I don't think there are known problems with use of PREEMPTION on
RELENG_5.

Kris
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