From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 14 14:58:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A04937B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:58:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8C343E72 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:58:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7ELwYwu011106; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:58:34 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7ELwXat011105; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:58:33 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:58:33 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_Nephtali?= 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> References: <20020814214326.GA237@nebula.WorkGroup> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="envbJBWh7q8WU6mo" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020814214326.GA237@nebula.WorkGroup>; from aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr on Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:43:26PM +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:43:26PM +0200, Aur=E9lien Nephtali wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 --=20 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 --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message