From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Hansen Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] /proc/pid/checkpointable Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:13:33 -0700 Message-ID: <1237407213.8286.198.camel@nimitz> References: <20090317062754.GA2377@us.ibm.com> <20090317063940.GF2377@us.ibm.com> <49C0B6FF.5030104@cs.columbia.edu> <20090318135953.GE22636@us.ibm.com> <49C1201A.3050604@cs.columbia.edu> <20090318171840.GA29523@us.ibm.com> <49C1347F.3000601@cs.columbia.edu> <49C153AF.7070504@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49C153AF.7070504-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Mike Waychison Cc: Containers , Sukadev Bhattiprolu , "David C. Hansen" List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 13:03 -0700, Mike Waychison wrote: > Polluting the dmesg buffer with messages from common failures (consider > a multi-user cluster where checkpoints may or may not succeed) isn't > very useful. Yeah, I've already gotten an earful from Serge and Dan S. about this. :) Serge suggested that, perhaps, the audit framework could be used. We might also use an ftrace buffer if we want to keep a whole ton of messages around, too. dmesg is definitely not workable long-term at all. -- Dave