Increasing the DMESG buffer....

[Mateusz Guzik]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 02:00:30PM +0300, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> On 25 November 2012 10:10,  <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:
> > Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 25.11.2012 01:43, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >> > I'm surprised it's not tunable via a kenv variable at boottime..
> >>
> >> It is tunable. AFAIR that is it:
> >> kern.msgbufsize="65536"       # Set size of kernel message buffer
> >
> > Yep.  That tunable is available in 8.2 (not 8.1), and I think in
> > all 9.x; dunno if it was ever MFC'd to the 7.x branch.
> >
> 
> The tunable was merged to stable/8 in March 2011 and
> first appeared in 8.3. It was never merged to stable/7.
> IIRC it should be quite easy to adopt those patches to stable/7.
> 

stable/7 will be out of support in 3 months. If someone is still using
it now is the time to upgrade.

http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup

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Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>