Re: log-buf-len dynamic

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 18:53:13 EST


On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:48:49AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:29:59AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > because you obviously never felt your heart accelerate and beat very loud
> > during these operations and cannot understand why some people prefer to keep
>
> well, I kind of remeber that ;)
>
> So ok, that sounds a good enough argument to keep the old patch too,
> despite you may be very few people using this.

Thanks for your understanding ;-)

> But let's do it only in 2.4, 2.6 should have it only dynamic.
>
> clearly if you can try to go 2.6 (possibly using a wrong .config) then
> you can risk editing the lilo/grub file as well. And with 2.6, with the
> printk rewrite that shrinks and grows the buffer, you should have no
> need of the parameter any more.

I have not tried it remotely yet, but I may adapt to a new behaviour or write
a patch :-)

Cheers,
Willy

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