Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: prctl patch for fpu faults

Keith Fish
2001-10-10T20:42:04Z

"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.