Re: [2.6 patch] let LOG_BUF_SHIFT default to 17

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 11:20:28 EST



* Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 16 kB is often no longer enough for a normal boot of an UP system.
>
> And even less when people e.g. use suspend.
>
> 17 seems to be a more reasonable default for current kernels on
> current hardware (it's just the default, anyone who is memory limited
> can still lower it).

agreed - but i think the default should be even higher. Many reported
dmesg's are truncated at the really interesting bits so it's a real
problem in practice.

Ingo
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