On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Cliff Crawford wrote:

> A similar problem occurs in the macppc port.  Try building a new kernel
> with the line:
> 
> options BUFPAGES=800

The problem is lack of kernel VM space to map the buffers. Doing
that would give you not a heck of a lot of buffer space, which is
really a waste on a machine with that much memory. The solution is
to set MAXBSIZE smaller so that you can map in more buffers. On my 512 MB
SS20 I use

options         MAXBSIZE=32768
options         NBUF=5120
options         BUFPAGES=14000

If you want to bring your MAXBSIZE down to 8192 (which should be
fine, unless you're mounting DOS disks with large cluster sizes or
something like that--unlikely on a Sparc) you can easily get a
couple of hundred MB of buffer cache.

cjs
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