From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 15 16:51:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94C6106566B for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@vereshagin.org) Received: from mx1.skyriver.ru (ns1.skyriver.ru [89.108.118.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7408FC15 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (bolobolo.torservers.net [173.254.192.35]) by mx1.skyriver.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 681805AE5 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:15:24 +0400 (MSK) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:50:54 +0400 From: Peter Vereshagin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20111215165054.GC18909@external.screwed.box> References: <1323040542.64352.YahooMailNeo@web122218.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <4EDCBB72.9070502@onetel.com> <4EDCC89F.9010904@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4EE8CAAF.3020500@onetel.com> <20111215153648.GB18909@external.screwed.box> <4EEA2238.3010900@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EEA2238.3010900@infracaninophile.co.uk> Organization: ' X-Face: 8T>{1owI$Byj]]a; ^G]kRf*dkq>E-3':F>4ODP[#X4s"dr?^b&2G@'3lukno]A1wvJ_L(~u 6>I2ra/<,j1%@C[LN=>p#_}RIV+#:KTszp-X$bQOj,K Subject: Re: I am FreeBSD user. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:51:10 -0000 Hello. 2011/12/15 16:37:12 +0000 Matthew Seaman => To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : MS> On 15/12/2011 15:36, Peter Vereshagin wrote: MS> > I find that kernel log messages about killed processes are doubling the MS> > characters just like that (on an SMP machine). Probably thay are getting killed MS> > simultaneously and the kernel writes msg about that one-by-one character. MS> > MS> > Should I file a PR on this? Have no idea how could I reproduce a situation. but MS> > it's regularly sent from 'periodic daily' several kernel log messages collected MS> > for a day. MS> MS> What OS version? There was a similar problem experienced on multi-core MS> machines where some of the boot messages were getting interleaved like MS> that. It was harmless, other than being aesthetically unpleasing -- I MS> believe it has been fixed in 8.2-RELEASE or later. ~ 7.2-release-p3 It was suspicious to me as it's like a someone is trying to turn logs into a mess therefore hiding an intrusion traces. MS> If you can demonstrate the problem on a recent version of the OS, and it I can't at least because I have no SMP machine accesible for such a trial by hand. ;-) MS> is definitely not the another instance of problem I describe above, then MS> yes, that's certainly worth an e-mail to freebsd-stable@... and possibly MS> a PR as well. ok, I see it's a known issue, just wanted to assure. -- Peter Vereshagin (http://vereshagin.org) pgp: A0E26627