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Re: Truncated log entries: msg#00149

Subject: Re: Truncated log entries
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:24, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> Are you perchance on an SMP system (which includes a 1-CPU HT)?  There's a few
> race conditions when processes on both/multiple processors printk() at the 
> same
> time.  Other possibility is a burst of traffic wrapped the kernel syslog 
> buffer
> before klogd read it.  On recent kernels, you can tune how big the buffer is 
> at
> kernel build time with CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT (16 for a 64K buffer, 17 for 128K,
> etc).

SELinux was migrated from using printk to using the kernel audit
framework developed by RedHat a while back.  We started getting bug
reports about truncated audit messages not long after...

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
National Security Agency



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