On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:24:36PM +0200, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > That is 'kern.msgbuf' ;-) > > Hm, I've never seen such a verbose output before. > > Has anything changed in that area? And why does it still occur after a > reboot, normally buffers are only temporarily valid(at least I thought > so until a few minutes)?
It's a fresh buffer every reboot. In you mail, it contained the last part of your startup messages. Everything that gets written to /dev/console is cycled through the buffer and the last $(sysctl kern.consmsgbuf_size) KB is made accessible via "sysctl kern.msgbuf". Marc
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