From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 21:20:16 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 E2DE516A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:20:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A40A43D41 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:20:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie ([134.226.81.10] helo=walton.maths.tcd.ie) by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 27 Apr 2005 22:20:14 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:20:14 +0100 From: David Malone To: Marc Santhoff Message-ID: <20050427212014.GA69666@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <1114623987.302.82.camel@zaphod.das.netz> <1114626276.302.89.camel@zaphod.das.netz> <20050427183147.GC6256@stack.nl> <1114628037.292.3.camel@zaphod.das.netz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1114628037.292.3.camel@zaphod.das.netz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie 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 21:20:17 -0000 On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:53:57PM +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote: > I still don't understand completly. In the file made like this: > > sysctl -a > garbage.txt > > there are the messages of at least three reboot cycles. The kernel tries to preserve the message buffer if it has not been cleared by rebooting - this makes it easier to find messages that might otherwise have been lost during an unexpected reboot. David.