From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
Robert Read <robert@xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Console Daemon
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:05:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42EF8BAB.7000609@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A95E2296287EAD4EB592B5DEEFCE0E9D2828D8@liverpoolst.ad.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Ian Pratt wrote:
>What I'd really like to see this console deamon do is to implement a
>FIFO buffer of the last N megabytes of console output, hence providing
>buffering while the tty is disconnected. Regardless of whether the tty
>is connected, it would be good to keep the last M megabytes stored on
>disk in /var/log/xen-myvmname.
>
>
Today it buffers N bytes worth of data in memory regardless of whether
the tty is connected (or reading from). How much it buffers is
configurable via the store (by default the buffer has no limit so ensure
console data is never lost).
Keeping a history wouldn't be a hard change. I'll submit some patches.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>Thanks,
>Ian
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-02 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-02 14:45 [PATCH] Console Daemon Ian Pratt
2005-08-02 15:05 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-03 11:13 Ian Pratt
2005-08-03 12:41 ` Keir Fraser
2005-08-03 9:32 Ian Pratt
2005-08-03 10:58 ` Rusty Russell
2005-08-03 11:08 ` Keir Fraser
2005-08-02 17:45 Ian Pratt
2005-08-02 17:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-08-02 18:06 ` Christian Limpach
2005-08-02 18:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-08-03 2:21 ` Rusty Russell
2005-08-02 17:55 ` Christian Limpach
2005-08-02 15:59 Ian Pratt
2005-08-02 16:30 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-08-03 2:11 ` Rusty Russell
2005-07-26 4:09 Anthony Liguori
2005-07-26 9:29 ` aq
2005-07-26 13:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-08-02 12:25 ` Keir Fraser
2005-08-02 15:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-08-02 12:26 ` Keir Fraser
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