weird console output

[Chuck Robey]

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Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:49:08 -0400
> Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:02:25AM +0100, Alexander Best wrote:
>>> very often when i boot or shutdown my pc i see weird text being output to the
>>> console. to me it seems like 2 messages are being mixed into 1 message. here's
>>> an example:
>>>
>>> "WcAdR0N IaNtG : aWtIaT1N EbSuSs  o0p ttiaorng eetn a1b lleudn,  0e
>>> xcpde0c:t  r<eHdLu-cDeTd- SpTe rDfVoDrRmAaMn cGeS.A-
>>> H1W0ANR NJILN1G: DIAG2N>O SRTeImCo voapbtlieo nC De-nRaObMl eSdC,S Ie-x0p
>>> edcetv irceed uc
>>> ecdd 0p:e r3f3o.r0m0a0nMcB/es.
>>> transfers"
>>>
>>> i'm running FreeBSD moshnroll 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #20 r190162M:
>>> Fri Mar 20 19:10:47 UTC 2009     root at moshnroll:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARUNDEL
>>> i386, but i've also had this issue under CURRENT. maybe this issue is smp
>>> related?
>>>
>>> cheers.
>>> alex
>> You are correct, it is smp related.  Those are two messages interlaced.  I see
>> them often when shutting down my SMP system.
>>
> 
> This quesion is asked and answered again and again.
> 
> Set "options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128" in your kernel config.

Gary, do you know why setting it to 128 fixes things?  Is the default size 0?  I
could see that causing things, but it's hard to believe.  I've been watching a
long time to see a fix for this.

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