Solaris 10 - bunch of drivers, or devfsadm ran for no reason?

Yesterday a bunch of syslog entries showed up, out of nowhere, no one was logged in, no cron jobs running at that time, the system was not rebooted:

Apr 5 17:27:16 jackson bge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: bge2: ddi_intr_get_su

pported_types() returned: 1

Apr 5 17:27:16 jackson bge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: bge2: Using Legacy in

terrupt type

Apr 5 17:27:16 jackson bge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: bge2: bge_add_legacy_

intrs

Apr 5 17:27:17 jackson mac: [ID 543131 kern.info] NOTICE: bge2/0 registered

Apr 5 17:27:17 jackson bge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: bge3: ddi_intr_get_su

pported_types() returned: 1

Apr 5 17:27:17 jackson bge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: bge3: Using Legacy in

terrupt type

Apr 5 17:27:17 jackson bge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: bge3: bge_add_legacy_

intrs

Apr 5 17:27:18 jackson mac: [ID 543131 kern.info] NOTICE: bge3/0 registered

Apr 5 17:27:18 jackson scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1 (glm

1):

Apr 5 17:27:18 jackson glm1 supports power management.

Apr 5 17:27:18 jackson scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1 (glm

1):

Apr 5 17:27:18 jackson Rev. 0 Symbios 53c1010-33/66 found.

Apr 5 17:27:18 jackson pcisch: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: scsi@2,1, glm1

Apr 5 17:27:18 jackson genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] glm1 is /pci@1c,600000/sc

si@2,1

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson ebus: [ID 521012 kern.info] su1 at ebus0: offset 0,2e8

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] su1 is /pci@1e,600000/isa

@7/serial@0,2e8

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: fssnap0

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fssnap0 is /pseudo/fssnap

@0

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: ramdisk1024

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ramdisk1024 is /pseudo/ra

mdisk@1024

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: winlock0

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] winlock0 is /pseudo/winlo

ck@0

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: lockstat0

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] lockstat0 is /pseudo/lock

stat@0

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: vol0

Apr 5 17:27:39 jackson genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] vol0 is /pseudo/vol@0

[etc]

This is a Solaris 10 host. Does something wake up periodically and do a "devfsadm" or something? A few minutes later in.mpathd chimed in:

Apr 5 17:32:13 jackson in.mpathd[125]: [ID 585766 daemon.error] Cannot meet req

uested failure detection time of 10000 ms on (inet bge0) new failure detection t

ime for group "bge" is 37394 ms

Apr 5 17:33:13 jackson in.mpathd[125]: [ID 302819 daemon.error] Improved failur

e detection time 18697 ms on (inet bge0) for group "bge"

Apr 5 17:33:13 jackson in.mpathd[125]: [ID 302819 daemon.error] Improved failur

e detection time 10000 ms on (inet bge1) for group "bge"

Apr 5 17:34:13 jackson in.mpathd[125]: [ID 585766 daemon.error] Cannot meet req

uested failure detection time of 10000 ms on (inet bge0) new failure detection t

ime for group "bge" is 36204 ms

Apr 5 17:35:13 jackson in.mpathd[125]: [ID 302819 daemon.error] Improved failur

e detection time 18102 ms on (inet bge0) for group "bge"

Apr 5 17:35:13 jackson in.mpathd[125]: [ID 302819 daemon.error] Improved failur

e detection time 10000 ms on (inet bge1) for group "bge"

That could have been caused by a network glitch as the LAN this host is on is relatively unstable. Could there be a relationship to the previous kernel syslog entries?

Just curious more than anything else . . .

[3947 byte] By [wsandersa] at [2007-11-27 0:15:58]
# 1

To answer my own question, it seems that under some circumstances, a "find /" can cause these messages to be produced, presumably as find traverses /dev or /devices. I don't know if the drivers are are being loaded up or what.

Seems to be a Solaris 10 thing, don't recall this ever happening in Sol 8.

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