Does the 'quiet' kernel parameter affect performance

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Issue

We noticed that when 'quiet' is not in place, and some applications print messages to the console with printk, the server could be hung for several minutes.

What is the effect if we add this parameter back to the kernel boot arguments?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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