From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 09:17:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7682316A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:17:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from transwarp.tao.org.uk (transwarp.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9029E43D58 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:17:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: from genius.tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by transwarp.tao.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F58DEAC4 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:17:23 +0100 (BST) Received: by genius.tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 0221F42F4; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:17:22 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:17:22 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040804091722.GB5782@genius.tao.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-taoresearch-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Tao Research for more information X-taoresearch-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: joe@tao.org.uk Subject: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7). X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:17:36 -0000 --OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've got a 5.2.x machine which has hung and is giving the message 'kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7)' on the console whenever anyone tries to open a tcp connect to it. Does anyone know what this tweakable is about and what might cause it to be "exceeded"? The machine has been running fine for 6 months. Joe --=20 Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D An eclectic mix of fact an= d theory. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkEQqaIACgkQXVIcjOaxUBbnOQCfRoNmTKiLTHGdMy9vRHizQ6pd 52wAoKyP+dLHT2VwV9byf+V+Fbo3cNTX =z2CM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1--