From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 28 04:11:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB8E16A41F for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:11:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0CF43D4C for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:11:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9565DC9; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:11:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 78921-05; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:11:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35BD15C56; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:11:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43B21084.1070102@mac.com> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:11:48 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Imran Imtiaz References: <200512270458.jBR4wnqD084238@darkstar.thelakecity.com.pk> In-Reply-To: <200512270458.jBR4wnqD084238@darkstar.thelakecity.com.pk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ker.ipc.maxpipekva error again and again X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:11:37 -0000 Imran Imtiaz wrote: > I am getting the following messages again and again, why it is accuring and how can I correct and track it? > Dec 27 00:48:00 darkstar kernel: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) You might look at ps or top for lots of stuck processes generated by something which are blocking. Basicly, the system has a limit on how much memory can be used to connect stages of pipelines between processes. Take a look at "sysctl kern.ipc", or more specificly: "sysctl kern.ipc | grep kva" -- -Chuck PS: "man tuning" is likely to be informative. :-)