From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 15 10:14: 8 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 59D7537B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D175843E6A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:14:03 -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 g7FHE2wu010070; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:14:02 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7FHE1ak010069; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:14:01 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:14:01 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_Nephtali?= Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] (was: Laptop doesn't free memory so old dmesg can be seen) Message-ID: <20020815101401.A9066@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20020815170312.GA224@nebula.WorkGroup> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020815170312.GA224@nebula.WorkGroup>; from aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr on Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:03:12PM +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 --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:03:12PM +0200, Aur=E9lien Nephtali wrote: > Hi, >=20 > After informations given by Brook Davis (thanks to him :p) I investigate = in > /sys/kern/subr_prf.c . I just add a bzero() but it fixes the *problem*. >=20 > I think it doesn't break anything but every comments are welcome. >=20 > Can the attached patch be commited ? You missed the point! This is a feature that some people want. You "fix" isn't one. IMO, the correct solution would be to mark boots and fix dmesg to only display messages since the last boot unless you specify a flag. -- 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 --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG 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 iD8DBQE9W+FZXY6L6fI4GtQRAti3AKDXa47upWOMod/0NjroK+l+D9S8hACfdI9B DxbQsiCwLvTKl0lqIu3qdY0= =8mFI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message