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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