Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #1278

C. Scott Ananian (cananian@lcs.mit.edu)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 12:17:06 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 31 Oct 1997 Andrea Arcangeli <arcangeli@mbox.queen.it> wrote:

> Please comment out the "d_alloc: 1681 unused, pruning dcache message" in
> this patch, if it is _not_ a warning/error message. The system is bad
> usable from console in 2.1.60 and 2.1.61 because I must press always
> CTRL-L if the filesystem code is running.

Modifying your /etc/syslog.conf will fix that problem.

Although I would like to see someone comb through the code and downgrade
the syslog priority levels for these debugging messages. The 'd_alloc...'
message should be LOG_DEBUG, as should the NFS_PARANOIA messages and some
of the other spurious-complaint-generators that we've been reading about
here.
--Scott
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