>> > You can see the problem below.
>> 
>> Where are the old R messages below?
>> 
>> > srvold9p:->Rwrite tag 10 count 29
>> > srvold9p:<-Twrite tag 10 fid 298 offset 52 count 5 'cpu% '
>> > srvold9p:=>old Twrite tag 10 fid 298 offset 52 count 5 'cpu% '
>> > srvold9p:->Rwrite tag 10 count 5
>> > srvold9p:<-Tread tag 10 fid 296 offset 5 count 512
>> > srvold9p:=>old Tread tag 10 fid 296 offset 5 count 512
>> > srvold9p:->Rread tag 10 count 3 'ps
>> > '
>> > srvold9p:<-Twrite tag 8 fid 298 offset 57 count 3667 'bootes            1    0:01   0:04      88K Await    init
>> > bootes'
>> > srvold9p:=>old Twrite tag 8 fid 298 offset 57 count 3667 'bootes            1    0:01   0:04      88K Await    init
>> > bootes'
>> > srvold9p: (pid 101, errstr read or write too large) wrote -1 to old system; should be 3683
> 
> it's a peculiarity of srvold9p that it seems not to log old R messages. 
> Not sure why, I'm about to turn this logging off anyways ... 

i'm not sure if the attached pic would explain it. i did a while
back while i was trying to understand srvold9p.