Talk a little about the system message buffer and cross-reference

MSGBUFSIZE in options(4).
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.\" $NetBSD: dmesg.8,v 1.14 2003/08/07 10:04:13 agc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: dmesg.8,v 1.15 2004/04/30 13:34:48 briggs Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -52,12 +52,27 @@ instead of the default ``/dev/mem''.
Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default
``/netbsd''.
.El
.Pp
The system message buffer is a circular buffer of a fixed size.
If the buffer has been filled, the first line of the
.Nm
output may not be complete.
The size of the message buffer is configurable at compile-time on
most systems with the
.Em MSGBUFSIZE
kernel option.
Look for
.Em MSGBUFSIZE
in
.Xr options 4
for details.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /var/run/dmesg.boot -compact
.It Pa /var/run/dmesg.boot
copy of dmesg at the time of last boot.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr options 4
.Xr syslogd 8
.Sh HISTORY
The