please explain ...

[Holm Tiffe]

Tomohiro Kusumi wrote:

>  Aaron LI <aly at aaronly.me>:
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:39:06 +0200
> > Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Holm,
> >
> > Thanks for trying DFly :)
> >
> > > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: [drm] fb depth is 24
> > > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: [drm]    pitch is 5888
> > > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: drm0: debug: Error during ACPI methods call
> > > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 2.40.0 20080528
> > > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: md3: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:34 fly kernel: md4: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:35 fly kernel: md5: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:35 fly kernel: md6: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:35 fly kernel: md7: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:40 fly kernel: md8: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:50 fly kernel: md9: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md10: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md11: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md12: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md13: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md14: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md15: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md16: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md17: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:51 fly kernel: md18: Malloc disk
> > > Jul 19 11:12:57 fly kernel: pid 1305 (at-spi-bus-launc), uid 201: exited on
> > > signal 11
> > >
> > > ..what those inflationary appearing malloc disks are good for:
> >
> > The "md" device uses an "almost cloning" method, i.e., when /dev/md{N} is
> > opened, a /dev/md{N+1} device is auto created.
> >
> > I think there is something wrong with the md probe... but I don't have more
> > ideas here.
> 
> This is a known behavior which originates from FreeBSD.
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/1624e20f39888e846831b8a8457c919d0cfa54c9
> 
> I doubt anyone or any userspace program needs this behavior.

Hmm.

May be..but I'm using FreeBSD since before 2.0 and I never ever saw an
behavior like this.
Yes I'm used malloc disks on this Notebook once, but I never created more
as two of them and I've deallocated them cleanly, there is no need to
create additional ones every time...

> 
> >
> > > ..and why my CDrom drive in the Laptop is generating lots of those ugly
> > > fault messages:
> > >
> > > If I remove the audio CD in the drive I get the logs filled up with this
> > > every second:
> > >
> >
> > The kernel messages about the CD drive is a know problem but shouldn't cause
> > any real issues.


It is a "real issue" for me when logfiles getting filled up with junk.

> >
> > Sorry that I'm not able to provide with more help about your problems.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Aaron

Thanks anyway,

Regards,

Holm

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