Kolbu » syslog http://www.kolbu.com Computers, Gadgets and Beyond! Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:44:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Excessive SCSI logging under Ubuntu http://www.kolbu.com/2008/03/18/excessive-scsi-logging-under-ubuntu/ http://www.kolbu.com/2008/03/18/excessive-scsi-logging-under-ubuntu/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:01:04 +0000 webmaster http://www.kolbu.com/2008/03/18/excessive-scsi-logging-under-ubuntu/ a

]]> For some natty reason, my 64bit Ubuntu 8.04 server sometimes insists that a SCSI logging level of infinite detail is good for my health. Which means my messages, syslog and kern.log files get 50-100 lines like this per second:

Mar 18 23:52:25 home kernel: [ 8661.700076] scsi_add_timer: scmd: ffff81004da8a700, time: 7500, (ffffffff88123ed0)
Mar 18 23:52:25 home kernel: [ 8661.700117] scsi_delete_timer: scmd: ffff81004da8a000, rtn: 1

If you too are suffering from this then do the following:

1. First, stop it right now by starting a shell and typing:

sudo sysctl -w dev.scsi.logging_level=0

2. To make sure it doesn’t start up again after a reboot then edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf and add this line anywhere in the file:

dev.scsi.logging_level = 0

And you should be all set.

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