bin/116458: [ipfw]: Logging problems with syslog and ipfw an 6.2.REL-p5

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

Remko Lodder wrote:
 >  > bge0 is running in promisc mode because of dsc which is running.
 >  >
 >  > sample content of /var/log/messages
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:00 ns2 newsyslog[94585]: logfile turned over due to 
size>100K
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:02 ns2 kernel: 5
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:05 ns2 kernel:
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:05 ns2 kernel: 7
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:08 ns2 kernel:
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:08 ns2 kernel: 9
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:11 ns2 kernel: 8
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:14 ns2 kernel:
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:14 ns2 kernel: e0
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:15 ns2 kernel: a bge0
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:15 ns2 kernel: e0
 >  > Sep 14 12:00:15 ns2 kernel: <

This problem is not related to the ipfw. But you can try this patch:
http://people.yandex-team.ru/~sem/FreeBSD/kernel/log_mutex.diff

Please, report back if it will help you.

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov