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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:42:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc syslog.conf
Message-ID:  <20050225184131.Q32072@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <863bvnl6fp.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <200502220803.j1M839fn013604@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050222082558.GB10624@cell.sick.ru> <20050223134627.GA21396@cell.sick.ru> <863bvnl6fp.fsf@xps.des.no>

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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, [iso-8859-1] Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> writes:
> > Yes, a good plan. btw, syslogd does some ratelimiting itself. However, =
when
> > system is low on kernel memory, new valid ARP entries fail to install
> > with _two_ debug messages. Since two different messages are printed one
> > after other, syslogd's limiting does not work. Example:
> >
> > Feb  2 09:00:01 <kern.debug> gw-core1 /kernel: arplookup 217.72.145.208=
 failed:
> > could not allocate llinfo
> > Feb  2 09:00:01 <kern.debug> gw-core1 /kernel: arpresolve: can't alloca=
te llinfo
> >  for 217.72.145.208rt
>
> The second message can simply be removed, since (from my quick reading
> of the code) it can only occur if the first has already occurred.

Are you sure? The second was the telltale that you have broken Linux
boxes on your network. :-)

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