Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759921AbXH2TnF (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:43:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756565AbXH2Tm4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:42:56 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:48696 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756399AbXH2Tmz (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:42:55 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Peter Staubach Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Randy Dunlap , neilb@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add source address to sunrpc svc errors In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:37:00 EDT." <46D5767C.9050206@redhat.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20070825012630.GB5431@gallifrey> <20070824185621.3f16f7c9.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070825150927.GA29335@gallifrey> <20070827214333.GM3118@fieldses.org> <7788.1188328346@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <46D5767C.9050206@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1188416518_2981P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:41:58 -0400 Message-ID: <13825.1188416518@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1416 Lines: 39 --==_Exmh_1188416518_2981P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:37:00 EDT, Peter Staubach said: > There are a lot of ways to discover who is throwing trash > at your system other than the kernel printing messages. > > Tools such as tcpdump and tethereal/wireshark make much better > tools for this purpose. Given the number of times I've had to use tcpdump and wireshark to wade through literally gigabyte traces looking for stuff specifically because the kernel *didn't* printk information it had handy, I'm not too sympathetic. Especially when the printk in question is currently saying "I know who's causing the problem but I'm not going to tell you, nyah nyah".... (And if there's better ways than kernel printing messages, does that mean we should deprecate the iptables '-j LOG' target while we're at it?) --==_Exmh_1188416518_2981P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFG1cwGcC3lWbTT17ARAkALAKDzAIKZPG13eEzctWWUzjlzarDLIQCgi8WD hFfxw5h1oAwxgwexBAebcOw= =mDJQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1188416518_2981P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/