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Date:      Sun, 22 Jun 1997 21:26:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Lars Fredriksen <lars@fredriks-1.pr.mcs.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upping the dmesg buffer
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970622212507.18425A-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <199706230355.WAA00616@fredriks-1.pr.mcs.net>

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On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Lars Fredriksen wrote:

> Hi,
> 	Currently the MSG_BSIZE in /usr/include/sys/msgbuf.h is defined
> as 8K. Would anyone have huge objections to making this 10-12-14-16K?
> 
> Right now if you have a fair amount of scsi devices on connected to the
> machine (particularly if some of those devices have multiple luns) you
> end up loosing a lot of information ( and that is without the -v option).
> 
> I set mine currently to 16k and that works fine( just need a rebuild of
> dmesg), and if this is something that people in general are not willing
> to spend their memory for, then I'll just have to modify it locally.
> 
> Just thought I'd ask what others needs are in this regard.
> 
> Lars
> -- 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Lars Fredriksen		fredriks@mcs.com		(home)
> 			lars@fredriks-1.pr.mcs.net	(home-home)
> 

  Maybe it should be made into a kernel config item:

options "MSGBUF=32767"


and make the dmesg source able to deduce the size of the kernel buffer.


Tom





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