Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:58:33 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_Nephtali?= <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop doesn't free memory so old dmesg can be seen Message-ID: <20020814145833.A8470@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20020814214326.GA237@nebula.WorkGroup>; from aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr on Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:43:26PM %2B0200 References: <20020814214326.GA237@nebula.WorkGroup>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:43:26PM +0200, Aurélien Nephtali wrote: > > When i reboot multiple times, i can see old 'dmesg' messages when > running 'dmesg'. I read in a thread (that i cannot find again) it > was due to my laptop which wasn't cleaning the memory correctly. > > Is there a patch or something like this available and not yet commited ? This is deliberate. I think it's annoying too, but there are times when it's helpful and thus that's how things are configured. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9WtKJXY6L6fI4GtQRArokAJ9IRwacWqXGOAZYyNp3Dmy0p0CVkwCg5yHh Jrmk/NaspmFz/9ByxGo5lvo= =Iffz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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