Subject: Re: BUFPAGES, NBUF, and 64K Buffer Size
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/02/1997 10:00:46
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997 12:23:57 -0700 (PDT) 
 Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> wrote:

 > Do we have a solution to this problem? I'd really like to have
 > about 2000 buffers on my system, which is only 8 MB of RAM, but is
 > 128 MB of virtual address space.

Not currently... A few solutions have been discussed, but most involve
a non-trivial amount of code to be changed.

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