Yo Alan! On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:08:43 -0400 (EDT) Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Uh, not easy. This is a production machine. Acceptable downtime is > > very small. There should be a way to turn it off at runtime. > > No, there shouldn't. It's a debugging feature; while debugging we > want to see all occurrences of these messages. > > Production machines should not run debugging kernels. We'll have to agree to disagree. My experience is the fun bugs only happen in production. A big NASA study years ago proved that after spending $1M per line of code that only half the bugs could be caught before live missions. > > Sadly the problem went away after a reboot. I suspect an > > initialization issue, but doing a git bisect of an intermittent > > problem on a production machine is not gonna happen. > > Especially if the problem doesn't reappear. One-time issues are very > hard to fix. Certainly not a one-time issue. I've seen it before, and will see it again, so I'll just keep gnawing at it. RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97701 gem@xxxxxxxxxx Tel:+1(541)382-8588
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