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Date:      Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:16:07 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS + cdda2wav
Message-ID:  <36C30247.966AC721@softweyr.com>
References:  <19990209233951.A402@broccoli.no-support.loc> <199902100355.TAA77997@apollo.backplane.com> <19990211031636.A2690@broccoli.no-support.loc>

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Bjoern Fischer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:55:20PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> [...]
> >      Bjoern, ktrace the program run.  I suspect the problem is not
> >      NFS but that the write() latency is causing one of cdda2wav's
> >      forked processes to exit and kill its child before the child
> >      finishes writing.
> >
> >      ktrace -t cn -i cdda2wav ....
> >
> >      kdump -R | less
> >
> >      Try to match up reads from the CD to writes to the output file.
> >      See if the final couple of read/write's match up.
> 
> Hmm, the procedure of testing changes the object being tested.
> The problem disappears while ktracing the run.

A "Heisenbug."  But don't tell Terry, you'll get a fizzix lecture.  ;^)

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Wes Peters                                                 Softweyr LLC
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