From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 30 17:24:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B2616A400; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:24:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B8C13C46E; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:24:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.15]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67AE027ADA2; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:24:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.42]) by mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B192D3D18; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:24:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (dslb-084-062-203-060.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.62.203.60]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF4336E874; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:24:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kiste.my.domain (root@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.2]) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l3UHOYOp007915 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:24:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from kiste.my.domain (lofi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kiste.my.domain (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l3UHOXSj024178; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:24:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by kiste.my.domain (8.13.6/8.13.4/Submit) id l3UHOXxo024177; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:24:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: kiste.my.domain: lofi set sender to lofi@freebsd.org using -f From: Michael Nottebrock To: kde@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:24:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200704300301.22102.david@vizion2000.net> <200704301832.12814.lofi@freebsd.org> <200704301001.08628.david@vizion2000.net> In-Reply-To: <200704301001.08628.david@vizion2000.net> X-Face: g:jG2\O{-yqD1x?DG2lU1)(v%xffR"p8Nz(w/*)YEUO\Hn%mGi&-!+rq$&r64,=?utf-8?q?fuP=7E=3Bbw=5C=0A=09=5EQdX?=@v~HEAi?NaE8SU]}.oeYSjN84Fe{M(ahZ.(i+lxyP; pr)2[%mGbkY'RmM>=?utf-8?q?+mg3Y=24ip=0A=091?=@Z>[EUaE7tjJ=1DRs~:!uSd""d~:/Er3rpQA%ze|bp>S MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2113207.olKnu7f2gX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200704301924.33576.lofi@freebsd.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, David Southwell Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] var/log/messages umass da0 >6 how to stop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:24:40 -0000 --nextPart2113207.olKnu7f2gX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 30. April 2007, David Southwell wrote: > On Monday 30 April 2007 09:32:07 Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > On Monday, 30. April 2007, David Southwell wrote: > > > [ Device probing message spam ] > > > [...] > > > > > > Can anyone help further? > > > > The short explanation: Those messages are generated by the kernel and > > triggered by the continuous polling of hald for media. The correct fix > > would be making the kernel less verbose - I don't know if anyone is > > working on that at the moment. > > > > There is very little you can do about it as it is - you can make sure to > > configure newsyslog so that /var/log/messages and its backup copies don= 't > > overflow your /var filesystem by editing /etc/newsyslog.conf and you can > > configure syslogd to write messages you care about to separate logs so > > they don't get lost too quickly in the kernel spam. > > > > Cheers, > > Thank you Michael. > > I gather, from what you say, that there are no configuration options for > hald to prevent this happening. I think there is, probably by generating some additional policy XML files, = but=20 I'll pass on that question (how to prevent hal from polling specific=20 devices/classes of devices/all devices) to the HAL maintainers at gnome@=20 (cc'd). Preventing hald from polling the devices would more or less defeat its purp= ose=20 though - it exists and runs to detect media insertions/changes and pass the= m=20 on the desktop applications (via DBUS) so they can react to it - like=20 displaying an icon your desktop. Perhaps there is a way to lengthen the sca= n=20 interval, perhaps even specific to certain devices or certain device classe= s? Like I said, the real fault in my opinion is with the kernel, which is simp= ly=20 way too verbose and lacks means of making it less so. Complaining about tha= t=20 on current@freebsd.org might help, but only in the medium term (it takes a= =20 while for changes to happen and trickle down into FreeBSD releases). Cheers, =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart2113207.olKnu7f2gX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGNiZOXhc68WspdLARAl+bAJ9p5mlFGLIG7HehrDjPsJ4BYx/O1QCeLJ5K 8cOVnLUbjGX0flAvn7wXQ3c= =/YyY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2113207.olKnu7f2gX--