Re: dcache probs

Myrdraal (myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org)
Thu, 13 Nov 1997 05:57:41 -0500


On Thu, Nov 13, 1997 at 12:57:09AM +1100, Marcus Berglund wrote:
Hi,
> I don't know if this point has bee raised before (I get the digests and
> they disapeared from my ISP's mail server) but yesterday I was deleteing
> XFree 3.3.1 source and I got a stack of error messages like so:
> Nov 12 17:03:45 mabs kernel: d_alloc: 1250 unused, pruning dcache
Those are harmless debug messages, don't worry about them, they do note
denote an error. Hmm, you kernel developers adding stuff like that might
want to prefix it with '<harmless>' or something, just so people don't
panic when they see it appearing in their logs.
-Myrdraal