Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 17:09:45 -0400 From: pkern@utcc.utoronto.ca To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: pkern@utcc.utoronto.ca Subject: kern/27361: kernel log messages only appear 3 times per minute. Message-ID: <01May15.170953edt.444525@rodent.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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>Number: 27361
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: kernel log messages only appear 3 times per minute.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue May 15 14:20:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: pkern
>Release: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Computing and Network Services, University of Toronto.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD knobs.utcs 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #10: Tue May 15 14:55:19 EDT 2001 pkern@knobs.utcs:/usr/src/sys/compile/KWAI i386
>Description:
syslogd gets kernel log messages only once every 30 seconds or
at the top of the minute, whichever comes first. It seems
logtimeout() is only called once after the kernel log is opened
and then never again after that. So I guess syslogd only gets
kernel log messages by virtue of syncer(4)'s flushes ...?
>How-To-Repeat:
any activity which is guaranteed to generate kernel log
messages more frequently than once every 30 seconds.
eg.
on a kernel configured with IPFIREWALL and IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE ...
# ipfw add 10 count log logamount 199990 ip from any to any
# ping -c 100 127.0.0.1
... and look in /var/log/security. the timestamps will tend to
clump together at regular 30-sec intervals or at :00 seconds.
>Fix:
--- /sys/kern/subr_log.c 2001/05/15 16:20:19 1.1
+++ /sys/kern/subr_log.c 2001/05/15 18:55:15
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@
logclose(dev_t dev, int flag, int mode, struct proc *p)
{
- callout_stop(&logsoftc.sc_callout);
log_open = 0;
+ callout_stop(&logsoftc.sc_callout);
logsoftc.sc_state = 0;
funsetown(logsoftc.sc_sigio);
return (0);
@@ -189,11 +189,14 @@
logtimeout(void *arg)
{
- if (msgbuftrigger == 0)
- return;
- msgbuftrigger = 0;
if (!log_open)
return;
+ if (msgbuftrigger == 0) {
+ callout_reset(&logsoftc.sc_callout,
+ hz / log_wakeups_per_second, logtimeout, NULL);
+ return;
+ }
+ msgbuftrigger = 0;
selwakeup(&logsoftc.sc_selp);
if ((logsoftc.sc_state & LOG_ASYNC) && logsoftc.sc_sigio != NULL)
pgsigio(logsoftc.sc_sigio, SIGIO, 0);
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