Shutdown anomaly

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 05:43:17PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> Jonathan Chen writes:
> 
> >  > I am seeing the following messages, which appear to indicate a memory 
> >  > overwrite:
> >  > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'vnlru' to stop...done
> >  > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system processs 'bufdaemon' to stop...done
> >  > a
> >  >  iStyinncgi n(gm adxi s6k0s ,s evcnoonddess)  rfeomra isnyisntge.m. .pr0o 
> >  > cess 'syncer' to stop...0 0 done
> >  > All buffers synced.
> >  > Uptime: 8m9s
> >  
> >  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.

The PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 workaround doesn't work on the few systems
I've seen the issue on; but if you're interested, one way to do it is:

    include     GENERIC
    ident       GENERIC-1
    options     PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128

Cheers
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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