System was paused for 00:00:00 to ensure console debugging output.

[3moloz123]

Hi,

Today I started getting, to me, unknown messages from one of my switches. Also notice the second empty line..

May 12 09:24:01 10.1.0.141 2381: *Sep 20 23:12:17: %SYS-3-LOGGER_FLUSHED: System was paused for 00:00:00 to ensure console debugging output.
May 12 09:24:01 10.1.0.141 2382:

All I seem to find on google is people who are having hardware issues, experience boot loops or did unsuccessful upgrades.

I have not gotten any other alarms, and the switch doesnt spit out errors in the terminal so Im pretty confident that all, for now, works fully.

IOS (tm) C3500XL Software (C3500XL-C3H2S-M), Version 12.0(5)WC3b, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Can anyone tell me a little bit about this message?

[Calin C. · Accepted solution]

Cisco Error Message Decoder:

1. %SYS-3-LOGGER_FLUSHED: System was paused for [time-stamp] to ensure console debugging output

Debugging  or informational messages are being generated faster than they can be  displayed on the console. To guarantee that they can be seen, the rest  of the system is paused until the console output catches up. This can  break time-cr itical behavior, such as maintaining an ISDN link.

Recommended  Action: Consider using conditional debugging, turning off console  logging, using the no logging console guaranteed command, or turning off  link-state messages for some interfaces.

Cheers,

Calin