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On 10/04/2012 11:37 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 11:02 -0500, Nathan Zimmer wrote:
>> At many of our customer sites the log level is set to KERN_DEBUG. It
>> helps avoid reboots due to operator impatience.  Machines this large
>> take significantly longer then typical to boot and seeing the extra
>> messages reassures them that the kernel isn't hung.
> That argues for adding some KERN_INFO "still booting" messages
> not logging unnecessary KERN_DEBUG messages.
>
>
Actually I would think that argues for reducing boot times on these 
large systems.