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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Subject: Re: where's the full copy of dmesg(8)?
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On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 01:28:50AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Chris H, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Interesting. Given that every system I run has (default) value of
> 65536.  Can you, or anyone suggest what the correct, of better value
> should be?

Bigger   :p

On most of my systems, I've got
options MSGBUF_SIZE=163840
in the kernel config.  It's been carried around everywhere for many
years.  Where'd I get it from?  I'm not sure.  Before r56838 the
default was 8k, so I'd guess I doubled it to 16k, then hit a time when
it overflowed again and just lazily *10'd it.  Even back with 256 meg
systems, I didn't feel too bad about "wasting" 160k.


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