On Wednesday 04 August 2004 15:52, Sushant Sharma wrote: > Hi All > > Can using a lot(i mean extremely large number ) of printk's, lead to > memory problem in the kernel and makes it crash. Can there be a > situtation in which using a lot of printk's can lead to kernel crash? The one think that lots and lots of printk's can lead to is the system spending all of its time handling the printk's and nothing else gets to run. It can quickly get bad when your printk's are being sent to a serial console. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/