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Subject: Re: reported timestamps during boot process?
From: Michael Grimm <trashcan@ellael.org>
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Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote:
> Michael Grimm <trashcan@ellael.org> wrote:

>> Is there a way to investigate the boot process by means of reported
>> timestamps in some logfile? dmesg doesn't seem to be the tool of
>> choice.

> you might find some hints in /var/log/messages.

Nope. It looks to me [1] that, whilst booting, kernel messages are =
written to that file in one batch after syslogd has been fired up. =
Timestamps of those messages are all showing the very same second.

Linux' dmesg has such a feature [2] I am looking for:

|	-d, --show-delta
|
|		Display the timestamp and the time delta spent between
|		messages.  If used together with =E2=80=94notimee then =
only the time
|		delta without the timestamp is printed.

Regards,
Michael

[1] is that correct?
[2] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dmesg.1.html=