nash@mcs.net (Alex Nash) writes:

>Does anyone know the magic incantation (or is it even possible) to
>produce a 256MB buffer cache under NetBSD/i386 1.3.2?

There was a PR recently about bugs in the buffer cache code that would
show up with large caches.  Fixes for that have been commited to -current
and to the 1.3.3 branch.  1.3.3 shouldn't be far off.  Or maybe you want to
try a -current snapshot.

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