On Monday, 30. April 2007, David Southwell wrote: > On Monday 30 April 2007 09:32:07 Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > On Monday, 30. April 2007, David Southwell wrote: > > > [ Device probing message spam ] > > > [...] > > > > > > Can anyone help further? > > > > The short explanation: Those messages are generated by the kernel and > > triggered by the continuous polling of hald for media. The correct fix > > would be making the kernel less verbose - I don't know if anyone is > > working on that at the moment. > > > > There is very little you can do about it as it is - you can make sure to > > configure newsyslog so that /var/log/messages and its backup copies don't > > overflow your /var filesystem by editing /etc/newsyslog.conf and you can > > configure syslogd to write messages you care about to separate logs so > > they don't get lost too quickly in the kernel spam. > > > > Cheers, > > Thank you Michael. > > I gather, from what you say, that there are no configuration options for > hald to prevent this happening.
I think there is, probably by generating some additional policy XML files, but I'll pass on that question (how to prevent hal from polling specific devices/classes of devices/all devices) to the HAL maintainers at gnome@ (cc'd). Preventing hald from polling the devices would more or less defeat its purpose though - it exists and runs to detect media insertions/changes and pass them on the desktop applications (via DBUS) so they can react to it - like displaying an icon your desktop. Perhaps there is a way to lengthen the scan interval, perhaps even specific to certain devices or certain device classes? Like I said, the real fault in my opinion is with the kernel, which is simply way too verbose and lacks means of making it less so. Complaining about that on [EMAIL PROTECTED] might help, but only in the medium term (it takes a while for changes to happen and trickle down into FreeBSD releases). Cheers, -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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