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On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> wrote:

> lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome
> this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it
> result in reasonable performance penalty.

Very probably, if only we could detect where the problem is.
Try adding "options     PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128" to the kernel
configuration file if you can, to see if you can get a less mangled
log outout.