Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > The dmesg buffer is a circular buffer containing both > > kernel output and console output. However, "dmesg" > > displays only the kernel output. If there was lots of > > console output, it filled all of the dmesg buffer, > > so "dmesg" displays nothing (all of the kernel output > > was overwritten by console output). "dmesg -a" will > > display everything, i.e. kernel + console output. > > Some of that description could usefuly be added to `man dmesg` ?
I agree. > Might some commiter wnat to hack a few words in ? Or do we neeed > a formal send-pr (that a commiter would rephrase likely anyway, so > best skip the send-pr ? ). If you have the time, please submit a PR (docs category). I'll take care of it. You're a native English speaker. I am not. So chances are that I won't rephrase it, except for technical reasons. And even if I did rephrase it, it's still a good thing to have a PR, so the issue doesn't get lost and forgotten. > > > - I tried loader.conf kern.msgbuf=64000 > > > > I think it must be a multiple of the pages size, i,e, > > 4K = 4096 on FreeBSD/i386. I usually set it to 65536 > > or 131072. > [...] > Puzzled on syntax to set size in loader.conf ? Unfortunately it's a kernel constant, not a tunable. The only way to change it is via "options MSGBUF_SIZE=..." in your kernel config file, and rebuild the kernel. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Whatever happened to the days when hacking started at the cerebral cortex, and not at the keyboard?" -- Sid on userfriendly.org by Illiad, 2007-06-20 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
