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Date:      Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:31:47 +0200
From:      Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
To:        Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff@t-online.de>
Cc:        "FreeBSD stable \(Liste\)" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [4.11] sysctl reports garbage
Message-ID:  <20050427183147.GC6256@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <1114626276.302.89.camel@zaphod.das.netz>
References:  <1114623987.302.82.camel@zaphod.das.netz> <20050427181013.GB6256@stack.nl> <1114626276.302.89.camel@zaphod.das.netz>

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:24:36PM +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> > That is 'kern.msgbuf' ;-)
>=20
> Hm, I've never seen such a verbose output before.
>=20
> Has anything changed in that area? And why does it still occur after a
> reboot, normally buffers are only temporarily valid(at least I thought
> so until a few minutes)?

It's a fresh buffer every reboot. In you mail, it contained the last
part of your startup messages.
Everything that gets written to /dev/console is cycled through the
buffer and the last $(sysctl kern.consmsgbuf_size) KB is made accessible
via "sysctl kern.msgbuf".

Marc

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