Hi, You are right, thanks! disabling CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME prevented this timestamps. I believe they should have provide some sysfs entry for this, sorry they did not do so regards, Kevin On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> When I add printk messages, and then try >> to read /var/log/messages, >> I see this: >> >> Jun 24 03:43:06 localhost kernel: [ 1858.148661] in my_func1 >> Jun 24 03:44:03 localhost kernel: [ 1915.150953] in my_func2 >> >> What are the numbers is square brackets ? like [ 1858.148661] >> or [ 1915.150953] ? > > IIRC, they are jiffies a.k.a timer clock. It is incremented every 1/HZ > second. Major distros usually use HZ=1000 these days. > > Looking at kernel config, I believe this parameter is the one that > toggle that timestamp: > CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y > > So changing it to N and recompile the kernel should get rid of it. > > -- > regards, > > Mulyadi Santosa > Freelance Linux trainer and consultant > > blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com > training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
