[PATCH] 2.6 PPC64: Reduce rtas spamming

Hollis Blanchard hollisb at us.ibm.com
Wed Jul 21 00:57:32 EST 2004


On Jul 20, 2004, at 9:51 AM, Nathan Fontenot wrote:

> Jake Moilanen wrote:
>
>> Do you think we should make CONFIG option if this is set or not set by
>> default, so the distros can decide to have it printed if they don't
>> package ELA by default.
>
> I think the default (for now) should remain to print rtas events to
> /var/log/messages.  There shouldn't be very many events for most
> systems.

This has not been my experience. I hope it would be true for most
production systems, but every (pre-release) machine I've worked on
recently has loads of them, often as frequent as one message per
second. These messages make our lives more difficult than they need to
be.

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center

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