linux-kernel - Re: fat: excessive log spamming due to corrupted fs

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Message-ID: <20100427173617.GA712@sig21.net>
Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:36:17 +0200
From:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fat: excessive log spamming due to corrupted fs

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 01:41:18AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp> writes:
> 
> >> comment about KERN_CONT in kernel.h.  But maybe it only happens
> >> for /var/log/kern.log and my xconsole when generating too much
> >> output too quickly, "dmesg -s 10000000 | less" did not show
> >> the corruption (but only shows ~2700 lines out of the ~10000).
> 
> Um, please check syslog at same time with dmesg. If there is corruption
> in syslog, but there is not in dmesg. It sounds like userland problem.

I guess klogd cannot handle that much output.  If you'd add some
rate limiting that might fix the log corruption, too.

Thanks
Johannes
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