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On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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 =A0 =A0 PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=3D128" to the kernel

this option is already there

> configuration file if you can, to see if you can get a less mangled
> log outout.
>