On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Dave Huang wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > as a workaround, reduce the amount of memory given to the buffer cache with
> >
> > 	options BUFPAGES="2000"
>
> Okay, I've recompiled my kernel and am compiling various packages
> again... we'll see how it does :) Thanks!

That did the trick... haven't had any panics or "cannot fork" errors
with the new kernel :)