On Thursdayen den 2 May 2002 17.22, Guy.Bormann wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2002, Oden Eriksson wrote:
> > On Thursdayen den 2 May 2002 14.19, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > > What I really miss in Linux is ability to take and analyze system dump.
> > > Anybody have tried LKCD project? Is it mature enough to be included in
> > > released kernel? Is there any interest to have this in kernel at all?
> >
> > Yes, I would probably find it interesting if it's not too difficult to
> > understand. Likewise I find the LTT stuff very interesting too, but there
> > were no interest as it seems...
>
> There was a big discussion in the Linux Kernel newsgroup/list about this
> issue about 2 weeks ago and it seems that only industry contributors
> (i.e. telco's, IBM, ...) wanted to pursue this. The rest of the hackers
> "in the wild" and Linus ('s crew) were not at all convinced how event
> logging could be useful enough to justify :
> 1) a major overhaul of the printk/syslog messaging system
> or 2) a second, parallel event logging capability
> and the associated performance impact for the "average" user. Even
> people who volunteered to implement a compilation configuration
> construct to minimize the hassle for uninterested users were turned
> down rather bluntly. (The next one judging in place of "the user" will be
> pointed to the historical Gates blunder of the 640KB limit, on the Linux
> Kernel list of course :-)
> So, standard kernel support for industrial strength event logging
> won't happen in the near future. However, there seems to be a strong
> pressure--from companies moving their core control networks to Linux--on
> Linux consultancy firms for event logging capabilities. I fear this could
> lead to forking or a big turn-down for Linux.
>
> Guy Bormann
I don't follow these lists/ng:s, it's simply just too much technical coding
woodoo-magic info...
Of course there will be impacts on performance, but so what? As I see it, or
wish to belive it you turn logging on or off with a kernel module? Only
people with lots of cpu power has event logging turned on all the time.
Thanks for the info Guy!
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Regards // Oden Eriksson
