In the last episode (Mar 21), Andrew Robinson said:
> I'm working on a problem that would benefit from verbose logging of
> the boot process. Unfortunately my logging is SO verbose that it
> fills up the available system buffer. I'm trying to figure out how
> to change the buffer size. I'm on 5.3 Stable.
>
> It looks like one way to do it might be to recompile the kernel, with
>
> options MSGBUF_SIZE=65536
>
> set. Is that the best way? If so, what is the default size of the
> buffer? I checked NOTES in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf but couldn't find
> any reference to it.
Yes, that's the only way to do it. It might be possible to convert it
into a tunable (which would let you set it in /boot/loader.conf), but I
don't know how early in the boot process tunables are available. The
default is 32768 (see /sys/sys/msbguf.h).
--
Dan Nelson
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