Shutdown anomaly

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:42:52AM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> 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.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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