Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:32:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@caladan.tdx.co.uk>, Tom Torrance at home <tom@tomqnx.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DMESG anomaly Message-ID: <19990302113245.N441@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903020028010.40130-100000@caladan.tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 12:31:04AM %2B0000 References: <m10Hb3U-000I1kC@TomQNX.tomqnx.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903020028010.40130-100000@caladan.tdx.co.uk>
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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
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