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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:50:06 -0800
From:      Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: spec_getpages I/O read failure on md0
Message-ID:  <20021229065028.GC881@lizzy.catnook.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021229152736.N39955-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <20021228193431.GA13948@lizzy.catnook.com> <20021229152736.N39955-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:57:49PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> Errors caused by these bugs can be non-deterministic because the pages may
> be loaded into memory other means.  E.g., when exec off zip drives
> was broken, exec would succeed after several attempts because each attempt
> loaded another 8 i386 pages so that all pages were eventually in memory.

Fwiw, that jibes with what I am seeing. After sticking in the extra printf so
far I have not been able to reproduce the problem again.

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