Subject: Re: port-i386/7117: default msgbufsize too small for modern x86 systems
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/09/1999 18:04:11
In article <199903091621.QAA00872@orchard.arlington.ma.us>,
	sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld) writes:
> 	boot system with wscons, a disk on pciide0, a few scsi disks,
> 	raidframe, a couple devices on an aha, and the usual pc
> 	stuff.  (this doesn't seem like a very large system any more).
> 	Watch msgbuf overflow.

I observed them same problem here.

>>Fix:
> 
> Change the definition of MSGBUFSIZE in sys/arch/i386/include/param.h
> to 2*NBPG from NBPG.  I haven't tried this yet; sending a PR so this
> doesn't get forgotten.

I use "options MSGBUFSIZE=16384" in my kernel configuration. But 8192
is enough, too.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/