On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 17:45:05 -0500 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "should be" and "unlikely" aren't very reassuring things to hear! > > Emitting a million lines into syslog is pretty poor behaviour and > > should be reliably avoided. > > So capping maximum lines of messages per some duration (a hour or a day) > is a possible option. BTW, even if we don't apply this patch, the kernel > can emit million lines of messages in the above-mentioned situation because > each memory error event emits a message like "MCE 0x3f57f4: dirty LRU page > recovery: Ignored" on syslog. If it's also bad, we need to do capping > also over existing printk()s, right? Yes, that sounds like a bug report waiting to happen. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>