From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 24 09:33:47 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA11436 for current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 09:33:47 -0800 Received: from server.iadfw.net (server.iadfw.net [204.178.72.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA11430 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 09:33:44 -0800 From: jbryant@server.iadfw.net Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by server.iadfw.net (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA07872; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:33:27 -0600 Message-Id: <199503241733.LAA07872@server.iadfw.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi sd.c To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:33:26 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503241559.BAA24505@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 25, 95 01:59:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1777 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 01:59:42 +1000 > From: Bruce Evans > To: bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@Root.COM > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi sd.c > > >>What's wrong with verbose output? I like it except when it scrolls too > >>fast to read or fills up the message buffer. The right way to fix this > > > It obscures important information, and important information scrolls off > >the screen before it can be seen; relying on the message buffer to contain > >it all doesn't help if your disk controller isn't attached correctly or the > >new user doesn't know about 'dmesg'. I'd prefer a much more quiet startup than > >what we even had previously. > > The syscons scrollback buffer could be enlarged too. There's normally > lots of free memory available at boot time so it wouldn't hurt to > allocate huge message and scrolllback buffers if you reduce them later. Well, here is a decent tradeoff... [/usr/src/sys/i386/isa/syscons.c] #define HISTORY_SIZE 60 * 80 * 5 ^^------- or 132 Granted, those with 4 megs may want to use a lower number depending on the number of vty's... I'm running with 20 megs, so this is no big deal for me, I could go larger, but I personally feel that any major scrollback function belongs in the shell anyhow. Also, has the problem with the screen trashing when you come out of the scrollback sometimes been fixed? I think I mentioned this in -hackers some time back... Jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@server.iadfw.net, System administrator, Internet America