Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 May 1998 20:11:14 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Peter Svensson <> | Subject | Re: To Bogomips or not to Bogomips? |
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On Sun, 24 May 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:
> > Is anybody planning on fixing the bug in dmesg so it reads the FULL > > message buffer rather than just the first 4k of it? > > It's not a bug...it's life. The message buffer has to be limited, or it > opens the kernel up to DoS attacks if the buffer can grow without limit > and consume all memory. It might be nice if the buffer size were made > tunable so that on big systems, you can see all the bootup messages before > the buffer fills.
Sure it is a bug. We are talking about the fact that current dmesg(8) implementations only copy 4k of the kernel ring buffer, even though it can be (and usually is?) larger.
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