> Hmmm, I think the problem that you will find with trying to get
> a _useful_ large buffer cache is getting enough buffer headers.
> As each buffer header requires a full 64k of VA space, and the
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Try to lower MAXBSIZE in sys/param.h (unless you have
filesystems with 64k blocksize).

> total allowed on the i386 is something like 7/10 of the available
> KVA space, it is rather difficult to make full use of buckets
> of memory for the cache...

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