功能说明:
功能说明:显示开机信息。
语 法:dmesg [-cn][-s <缓冲区大小>]
补充说明:kernel会将开机信息存储在ring buffer中。您若是开机时来不及查看信息,可利用dmesg来查看。开机信息亦保存在/var/log目录中,名称为dmesg的文件里。
参 数:
-c 显示信息后,清除ring buffer中的内容。
-s<缓冲区大小> 预设置为8196,刚好等于ring buffer的大小。
-n 设置记录信息的层级。
扩展阅读一:dmesg命令主要用途
主要应用:
dmesg用来显示内核环缓冲区(kernel-ring buffer)内容,内核将各种消息存放在这里。在系统引导时,内核将与硬件和模块初始化相关的信息填到这个缓冲区中。内核环缓冲区中的消息对于诊断系统问题 通常非常有用。在运行dmesg时,它显示大量信息。通常通过less或grep使用管道查看dmesg的输出,这样可以更容易找到待查信息。例如,如果发现硬盘性能低下,可以使用dmesg来检查它们是否运行在DMA模式:
$dmesg | grep DMA
...
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
上面几行可以说明每个IDE设备正在什么模式下运行。如果以太网连接出现问题,那么可以在dmesg日志中搜索eth:
$dmesg | grep eth
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce
ethernet driver. Version 0.49.
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 0147b:1c00
bound to 0000:00:04.0
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
如果一切正常,那么dmesg显示每个网卡的硬件配置信息。如果某项系统服务未能得到正确的配置,dmesgdmesg >boot.messages
[root@new55 ~]# mail -s "Boot Log of Linux Server" [email protected] <boot.messages
[root@new55 ~]#
示例二 浏览dmesg输出的信息
[root@new55 ~]# dmesg | less
Linux version 2.6.18-194.el5 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:43 EDT 2010
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001f7d0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f7d0000 - 000000001f7efc00 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f7efc00 - 000000001f7fb000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f7fb000 - 000000001f800000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec02000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000fed9b000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fedc0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
503MB LOWMEM available.
Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range
disabling kdump
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
On node 0 totalpages: 128976
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 124880 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI 2.3 present.
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: RSDP (v000 HP ) @ 0x000fe270
ACPI: RSDT (v001 HP 30C4 0x31100620 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x1f7efc84
ACPI: FADT (v002 HP 30C4 0x00000002 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x1f7efc00
ACPI: MADT (v001 HP 30C4 0x00000001 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x1f7efcb8
ACPI: MCFG (v001 HP 30C4 0x00000001 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x1f7efd14
ACPI: SSDT (v001 HP HPQPpc 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x1f7f6698
ACPI: DSDT (v001 HP DAU00 0x00010000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfec01000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:13 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
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