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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:13:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>
To: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
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Well, I Discovered, something strange. I put in a blank new CD-R, so these
errors are not of concern? (In which case why have the kernel log get
spewed with them if they are guaranteed to happen?)

Shawn.

--
Hugged a Tux today? (tm)

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> The way sg_low_malloc() tries to allocate, failure messages are
> pretty much garanteed.  It tries high order allocations (which
> are unreliable even when not stressed) and backs off until it
> succeeds.
>
> In other words, the messages are a red herring.
>
> 	-Mike
>
>
>