In the last episode (Aug 24), Chris St Denis said: > Occasionally I get entries like this in my log. It looks like more > than one process is logging at the same time. Shouldn't syslogd be > thread/SMP/concurrency safe from this kind of thing? > > Aug 24 05:29:44 sakura kernel: <<66>>ppiidd 119942486 9( (hthttptdpd)),, > uiudi d 808:0 :e xeixtietde do no ns isginganla l 1111
Syslog is a single-threaded process, but that line is a console log entry, and two process that coredump simultaneously on an SMP machine will cause both CPUs to printf a message to the console simultaneously, which gives you your interleaved output. > In an unrelated note, I'm getting a few " *** POKED TIMER ***" > messages in the syslog from named, anyone know what this is? I found > a few questions about in the archive, but no answers (telling > somebody to search the archive isn't any good when that's the only > answer found) It's a debugging message that prints when pthread_cond_timedwait() doesn't return correctly. Within the last month or so (depending on what branch you're running), /usr/sbin/named was switched to be built non-threaded, so if you update your tree and rebuild named, the message will disappear. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"