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

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Date:	Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:11:58 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fat: excessive log spamming due to corrupted fs

Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net> writes:

> 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.

I guess it meant the corruption is in only syslog. Ok, it explains this
problem.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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