On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 01:00:45PM -0700, Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:
> 
>  From memory:
> 
>     panic: cpu_startup: cannot allocate vm for buffers.
> 
> Normal startup looks like this:
> 
>     total memory = 767 MB
>     avail memory = 707 MB
>     using 6144 buffers containing 39400 KB of memory
> 
> Am I hitting some other table overflow by asking for 25% of memory to
> go to buffers?

Yes.  Try:

gdb --write /netbsd
set bufpages=80000
quit
reboot

-Andrew