Re: [4.11] sysctl reports garbage

From: Marc Olzheim (marcolz_at_stack.nl)
Date: 04/27/05

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To: Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff@t-online.de>

    On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:24:36PM +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote:
    > > That is 'kern.msgbuf' ;-)
    >
    > Hm, I've never seen such a verbose output before.
    >
    > Has anything changed in that area? And why does it still occur after a
    > reboot, normally buffers are only temporarily valid(at least I thought
    > so until a few minutes)?

    It's a fresh buffer every reboot. In you mail, it contained the last
    part of your startup messages.
    Everything that gets written to /dev/console is cycled through the
    buffer and the last $(sysctl kern.consmsgbuf_size) KB is made accessible
    via "sysctl kern.msgbuf".

    Marc

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