On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Gabor Lenart wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:06:07PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Does Linus or anyone object to raising the ksmg buffer from 16K to 32K?
> > > 4/5 systems I have now overflow the buffer during boot before init is
> > > even launched.
> >
> > Thats just an indication that 2.4.x is currently printking too much crap on
> > boot
>
> Would it be possible to grow and shring that buffer on demand?
> Let's say we have a default size and let it grow to a maximum
> value. After some timeout, buffer size can be shrinked to
> default value if it's enough at that moment. Or something
> similar.
And when you can't allocate memory for expanding the
printk() ringbuffer? Print a message? ;)
Rik
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