dmesg output

[Bruce Evans]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Putinas wrote:
>
> > Hi all, Is it normal what dmesg output is _one_ even not full line ? Any
> > way to set it lets say to 1000 lines ? I am running 5.2.1-RC2
> >
> > # dmesg
> > 192.157:25 out via fxp1
>
> This is uncommon, but it does happen sometimes... is the system
> multiprocessor?

This happens when the message buffer fills up with non-kernel messages.
Use dmesg -a to see all the messages.

Bruce