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Subject: Re: Shutdown anomaly
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Dominic Fandrey writes:

>  >>  It's an interleaved buffer messages on SMP systems. The problem is
>  >>  known, but I haven't heard of a proposed solution yet.
>  > 
>  > 	There is no fix.
>  > 	The workaround is to increase the size of the kernel printf()
>  > buffer.  I don't remember how you do that ... but this is not a new
>  > issue - chech the archives for details.
>  
>  I would like to propose a fix. Care to test it?

	Me personally?  No.  Don't have an SMP machine available.


					Robert Huff