In the last episode (Jun 17), Marc G. Fournier said: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >Jun 17 16:00:03 pluto kernel: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) > >Jun 17 16:00:04 pluto kernel: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) > > > >but I can't seem to find anything in tuning(7) about it ... so, what > >is it and how do I monitor for it? > > More on this: > > # sysctl -a | grep pipekva > kern.ipc.maxpipekva: 16777216 > kern.ipc.pipekva: 15122432 > > and I just rebooted the server ... > > so obviously I've been living on the edge ... not sure what to increase it > to, since not sure what it affects, so will wait on responses ...
Try also running "sysctl kern.ipc | grep pipe", which will also tell you how many pipes are in use, plus some other counters. The comment at the top of sys/kern/sys_pipe.c explains how pipes are given memory. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"