Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:00:49 +0500 From: Roman Streltsov <warlock@voip.kg> To: Peter Losher <Peter_Losher@isc.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'kern.maxpipekva exceeded' messages... Message-ID: <200401201000.50224.warlock@voip.kg> In-Reply-To: <200401191506.07789.Peter_Losher@isc.org> References: <200401191506.07789.Peter_Losher@isc.org>
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On Tuesday 20 January 2004 04:06, Peter Losher wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > In updating one of our authoritiative name servers to 5.2-REL, we > enountered after two days of running, kernel message like: > > kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7). > > appearing to the point to where you couldn't ssh into the box (because sshd > died w/ too many files opened). I see so mention of kern.maxpipekva on the > tuning man page, and greping only finds kern.ipc entries. > > % sysctl -a | grep pipekva > kern.ipc.maxpipekva: 10485760 > kern.ipc.maxpipekvawired: 5242880 > kern.ipc.pipekva: 131072 > kern.ipc.pipekvawired: 0 > > Are they the same, and if so, what's are the guidelines for increasing the > number? Yes, you can sure if look in sys/kern/sys_pipe.c In my case I just increased kern.ipc.maxpipekva in 16 times Also I do not why there is any mention in tuning(7) about maxpipe (in 5.2 current too) Good luck Roman
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