The following reply was made to PR port-i386/34186; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Blair Sadewitz" <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/34186 (msgbuf allocation)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 11:03:32 -0500

 On 12/5/06, Pavel Cahyna <pavel@netbsd.org> wrote:
 >
 > No, because the size of message buffer has no simple relationship to the
 > number of segments used.
 >
 > There is VM_PHYSSEG_MAX constant which is the maximum number of physical
 > memory
 > segments. It should be used instead of MSGBUF_MAX_SEG imo.
 
 Oh, yeah, I didn't think of that one; seems like the way to go.  That
 way MSGBUFSIZE could be used just like before, right?
 
 I'll try that out later on and send the diffs here for amd64.
 
 Regards,
 
 --Blair
 
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