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Old 08-12-2010, 07:52 AM   #1
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kernel: printk: 3 messages suppressed.


Hi
I've got this lines in /var/log/messages
Server is running varnish-cache
Could you please explain me what does it mean?

thanks

Aug 10 09:22:43 lbaa kernel: printk: 3 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:22:46 lbaa kernel: printk: 1 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:22:50 lbaa kernel: printk: 2 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:22:54 lbaa kernel: printk: 2 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:22:59 lbaa kernel: printk: 5 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:23:06 lbaa kernel: printk: 5 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:23:09 lbaa kernel: printk: 8 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:23:15 lbaa kernel: printk: 3 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:23:20 lbaa kernel: printk: 3 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:23:26 lbaa kernel: printk: 5 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:23:30 lbaa kernel: printk: 2 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:23:35 lbaa kernel: printk: 4 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:23:39 lbaa kernel: printk: 6 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:23:46 lbaa kernel: printk: 4 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:23:50 lbaa kernel: printk: 6 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:23:55 lbaa kernel: printk: 7 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:24:00 lbaa kernel: printk: 2 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:24:08 lbaa kernel: printk: 7 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:24:14 lbaa kernel: printk: 1 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:24:24 lbaa kernel: printk: 3 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:24:31 lbaa kernel: printk: 6 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:24:35 lbaa kernel: printk: 4 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:24:40 lbaa kernel: printk: 7 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:24:49 lbaa kernel: printk: 6 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:24:55 lbaa kernel: printk: 1 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:25:00 lbaa kernel: printk: 2 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:25:10 lbaa kernel: printk: 2 messages suppressed.
Aug 10 09:25:19 lbaa kernel: printk: 1 messages suppressed.


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Old 08-14-2010, 08:46 AM   #2
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It usually means that the last N messages were exactly the same as the preceding message so it suppressed it and informed you of that instead of printing all the duplicate messages
 
  


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