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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Print sysrq-m messages with KERN_INFO priority
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 10:33:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070102103332.46de83bd@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070102043743.GB15718@thunk.org>

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:37:43 -0500
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> > Is this patch a consistency thing?
> 
> The goal of the patch was to avoid filling /var/log/messages huge
> amounts of sysrq text.  Some of the sysrq commands, especially sysrq-m
> and sysrq-t emit a truly vast amount of information, and it's not
> really nice to have that filling up /var/log/messages.  

I find it extremely useful that it ends up in /var/log/messages so that I
can review the dump later. Often the first glance through a set of dumps
on things like a process deadlock don't reveal the right information and
you need to go back and look again.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-02 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-30  3:24 [PATCH] Print sysrq-m messages with KERN_INFO priority Theodore Ts'o
2006-12-30  4:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-30  4:57   ` Dave Jones
2007-01-02  4:37   ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-02 10:33     ` Alan [this message]
2007-01-02 17:28       ` Dave Jones
2007-01-02 18:03       ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-02 18:15         ` Dave Jones
2006-12-30  5:19 ` * *
2007-01-02  4:24   ` Theodore Tso

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