Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:28:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: "Adam McDougall" <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where's the full copy of dmesg(8)? Message-ID: <9da21869740371e51b0e684f493676ef.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <53378975.1000905@egr.msu.edu> References: <d3e160a01d1af1af67980b151cc57da3.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <53378975.1000905@egr.msu.edu>
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Greetings, Adam, and thank you for your reply. > On 03/29/2014 21:37, Chris H wrote: >> Greetings, >> I'm testing on 9.2-STABLE, and was experimenting on an AMD sempron >> (140). Booting from the boot-only, or DVD-1 DVD's doesn't emit the >> entire dmesg(8) output. Building, and installing a custom kernel also >> didn't provide the full dmesg(8) output. >> Specifically; it omits the top N lines (N = as yet, undetermined Number). >> I have no idea why, or how to correct this. I'm pretty confident >> the processor, and motherboard (MSI) are not too new for FreeBSD. > > I am almost certain you want to increase kern.msgbufsize at the boot > loader before booting. > > % sysctl -d kern.msgbufsize > kern.msgbufsize: Size of the kernel message buffer Interesting. Given that every system I run has (default) value of 65536. Can you, or anyone suggest what the correct, of better value should be? Or better, what the formula to determine that value is? I'm not finding either of those answers in the man(1) pages, or the documentation. Thanks again, for your thoughtful reply. --Chris > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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