> The main problem with the console logs was that the console was over
> serial line at 9600 baud to an old vt220 (common in mass machine room
> configurations), so this is extremely touchy to verbose console
> messages.
The solution on recent Sequent SMP systems was to add a daemon that takes
the equivalent of the printk()'s and buffers them. That way the console
(which is *always* a vt220 with a max baud of 19200) doesn't hold back
the kernel. You get an extra process with it's own thread of execution
doing the buffering.
Could an existing daemon (syslogd?) be modified to do this buffering?
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