From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Fish Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:42:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: prctl patch for fpu faults Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org "Mallick, Asit K" wrote: > > David/Jesse, > > I would like the default to be noprint. As Jack mentioned that there are > applications that will generate lots of these messages. These messages are > ok for development systems and debugging applications but for production > systems this creates problem. Most of the users want to run the applications > (production) that do not require changing the configuration. We have seen > people running applications on top of Linux and complaining about the > performance compared to other OSes. The performance difference is due to the > logging of these messages. Really? I would have thought the rate-limiting mode would reduce the logging (printing) to noise relative to the (huge) overhead of the traps.