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From: nick@eunet.ie (Nick Hilliard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /kernel: in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 2400
Date: 15 Apr 1997 11:52:22 +0100
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Michelle Brownsworth (michelle@primelogic.com) said:
: That's the first cryptic message that appears on the console and in
: /var/log/messages, and others follow with decreasing values.  This kernel
: message is obviously an advisory that something is amiss, in the kernel's
: opinion, making it necessary to do an adjustment to compensate, since the
: dunderhead system administrator hasn't done it.

Naah, nothing so conspiratorial.  The message is just to let you know what's
happening with the routing table timers.  The warning was removed after
2.1.0, to stop people thinking that their system was broken.

You can safely ignore the messages.

Nick