Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/26746: dmesg only prints the last couple of lines of the message buffer Message-ID: <200104300040.f3U0e2h89208@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/26746; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Trond Davidsen <trond.davidsen@ii.uib.no> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/26746: dmesg only prints the last couple of lines of the message buffer Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:36:45 +1000 (EST) On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Trond Davidsen wrote: > dmesg -a gives the expected output (~450 lines). But I can't see > anything in the man page that explains why I get only ~3 lines when I > use dmesg without any commandline options. Maybe there is on 3 lines left after removing the extras printed by -a. ISTR seeing this behaviour while using dmesg in single user mode. This seemed to be caused by the message buffer filling up and either the internal wrap-around not working or dmesg not understanding the wrap- around. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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