On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:44:16PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:44:16 +0000 (GMT) > From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: sjhill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: CVS Update@xxxxxxxxx: linux > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > > Anyone is free to bump their console/syslog loglevel to get rid of less > > > important messages to suit there preferences. And INFO, which is what the > > > message uses, is the lowest level for stuff for non-developers. > > > > As a deterring example why I try to cut down on system messages checkout: > > > > http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/index.php/IP27_boot_messages > > > > 70kB of little information crawling over a 19k2 console making kernel > > startup an entertaining experience for the whole family ;-) > > Why don't you boot at 115200bps then? I do that with my DECstations > (well, since I've fixed their serial console to support it). Otherwise > there's that "quiet" argument to bump the console loglevel. > > Besides the SWARM and friends boot at 115200bps by default anyway and > their average bootstrap log size is around 7kB... ;-) Because that a) the default rate of the machine and b) the limit of the terminal server. ALOT of console servers. Ralf
