Subject: Re: lfs_mountfs: please consider increasing BUFPAGES to at least 169088
To: None <ghen@telenet.be>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/23/2005 01:50:51
Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Since I updated my 2_STABLE system yesterday, the kernel says the following
> when I mount an lfs filesystem (e.g. at boot).  
> 
> lfs_mountfs: please consider increasing BUFPAGES to at least 169088
> 
> - Why am I suddenly getting this message, I never got it before? 
> - sysctl hw.pagesize = 4096 here.  169088 pages means 660 Mb RAM ??
> - How can I know its current value?  There is no default BUFPAGES value in
>   my kernel config file.  

This is a known problem. See PR kern/24524:

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=24524

Unfortunately, I got my lfs partition blown away after crashes, so I can't
check whether it's been fixed or not.

Jun-Young