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Date:      Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:00:48 +0000
From:      Jason Henson <jason@ec.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7)
Message-ID:  <1110765648l.17082l.2l@BARTON>
In-Reply-To: <f2160e0d05031312441b719c2a@mail.gmail.com> (from john.destefano@gmail.com on Sun Mar 13 15:44:32 2005)
References:  <20050313171401.08B0D16A4DA@hub.freebsd.org> <f2160e0d05031312441b719c2a@mail.gmail.com>

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On 03/13/05 15:44:32, John DeStefano wrote:
> I have seen a mention or two of this error on the lists before,
> including this link to the "current" list I pulled up from Google:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-January/019150.ht=
ml
>=20
> In my case, the errors began after my exploratory two-year-old found
> the shiny 'reset' button and could not resist its powers.  I'm also
> getting HDD error messages on boot, 'fsck -y' shows all the file
> systems as read-only and returns errors on one of them, and I can no
> longer SSH into my system (due to, I assume, too many open file
> handles), or even get a command in on my console without an error
> popping in..
>=20
> The solution does not seem clear cut to me, and it seems the error
> message itself does not provide valid (or, at least, sufficient)
> information.
>=20
> Could someone please help, or point me in the right direction?
>=20
> Thanks, as always,
> John
> _______________________________________________

FreeBSD is very robust with power failures, but that was a reset =20
button.  Do you have acpi on?  When I hit my power button every once in =20
a while my system shuts down properly.  Try booting into single user =20
mode and do a manual mount and fsck.

And just to help you out:

$ sysctl -ad | grep pipekva
kern.ipc.maxpipekva: Pipe KVA limit
kern.ipc.pipekva: Pipe KVA usage
$ sysctl -a | grep pipekva
kern.ipc.maxpipekva: 8634368
kern.ipc.pipekva: 344064

$ uname -a
FreeBSD BARTON 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #5: Mon Mar  7 =20
20:51:09 EST 2005     jason@BARTON:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NINAMORI  i386
$



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