From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 18:31:49 2005 Return-Path: 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 B99E116A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:31:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0CC543D5D for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:31:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from hammer.stack.nl (hammer.stack.nl [IPv6:2001:610:1108:5010::153]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D02F1F119; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:31:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by hammer.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 333) id 04F816149; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:31:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:31:47 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim To: Marc Santhoff Message-ID: <20050427183147.GC6256@stack.nl> References: <1114623987.302.82.camel@zaphod.das.netz> <20050427181013.GB6256@stack.nl> <1114626276.302.89.camel@zaphod.das.netz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wLAMOaPNJ0fu1fTG" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1114626276.302.89.camel@zaphod.das.netz> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD hammer.stack.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-URL: http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: "FreeBSD stable \(Liste\)" Subject: Re: [4.11] sysctl reports garbage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:31:49 -0000 --wLAMOaPNJ0fu1fTG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:24:36PM +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > That is 'kern.msgbuf' ;-) >=20 > Hm, I've never seen such a verbose output before. >=20 > Has anything changed in that area? And why does it still occur after a > reboot, normally buffers are only temporarily valid(at least I thought > so until a few minutes)? It's a fresh buffer every reboot. In you mail, it contained the last part of your startup messages. Everything that gets written to /dev/console is cycled through the buffer and the last $(sysctl kern.consmsgbuf_size) KB is made accessible via "sysctl kern.msgbuf". Marc --wLAMOaPNJ0fu1fTG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCb9qTezjnobFOgrERAvHjAKC/bWgDU7XOFIXcBaD+PeTjdUCf7wCeN/em 3WyCCYIjpBW3NAqkEfaVFrI= =cR9m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wLAMOaPNJ0fu1fTG--