From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 17: 4:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24DB1153F2 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:03:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA22416; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:32:45 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA02535; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:32:45 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990302113245.N441@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:32:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Karl Pielorz , Tom Torrance at home Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DMESG anomaly References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Karl Pielorz on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 12:31:04AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 2 March 1999 at 0:31:04 +0000, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Tom Torrance at home wrote: > >> Does anyone have a clue why dmesg only gives me a truncated >> response (top chopped off) under RELEASE-3.1? >> It did the same thing under RELENG_3 on the same machine. >> >> Please do a group reply... > > If you have a machine that has a lot of hardware in it, or spews out a lot > of kernel output during/after boot - the dmesg output can overflow it's > buffer... There might be a setting for this when you compile the kernel - > I'm not sure... :( Yes, there is: options "MSGBUF_SIZE=32768" # big msgbuf This is what I have in my kernel config file. You'll need it if you want to get all of a verbose boot, for example. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message