Wanted: a limit on kernel log buffer size

Chuck Ebbert (76306.1226@compuserve.com)
Sun, 6 Apr 2003 21:34:08 -0400


Some people (who will mercifully go unnamed) just will _not_
read the documentation, and set the kernel log buffer shift
to 31 on a 256MB machine. This attempt to allocate 2GB of memory
for the buffer results in an unbootable kernel.

Suggestions?

--
 Chuck
 I am not a number!
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