You are doing the public a major disservice by not including kernel timestamps on your default kernels. <br />
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I administer a large amount of CentOS boxes and on a very regular basis I am checking the output of dmesg to attempt to diagnose a problem with a running system. I require to know when an event occurred, not just that it did. <br />
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You might say, "But you can use a logger that adds timestamps for you" to which I rebut "but only if the logger is able to write to the disk, whereas if I am able to at the very least login to a session and issue 'dmesg' and 'cat /proc/uptime' I myself can calculate the difference and figure out how long ago aacraid.ko timed out for example. <br />
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Again, this is extremely useful in diagnosing DISK RELATED ISSUES THAT PREVENT WRITES TO LOGS.
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