Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:48:23 -0500 From: John DeStefano <john.destefano@gmail.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7) Message-ID: <f2160e0d0503141448442955cb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050314173854.GC91771@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20050313171401.08B0D16A4DA@hub.freebsd.org> <f2160e0d05031312441b719c2a@mail.gmail.com> <20050314173854.GC91771@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:38:54 +0000, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 03:44:32PM -0500, 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.html > > > > 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.. > > > > 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. > > > > Could someone please help, or point me in the right direction? > > Did you read the tuning(7) manpage, as instructed? > > Kris > Hi Kris, Yes, and it contained quite a bit of informaiton. But it does not seem to contain this error directly, nor any procedural information on how to alleviate the error. I also read here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-January/019150.html "the error message is incorrect." and "This value is loader tunable only." And here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/17/2004/11/3/255979 "Unfortunately the man page for tunining doesn't seem to have anything specifically about increasing the value of kern.ipc.maxpipekva". I have the box working as a dumb terminal, and I'm no longer able to SSH in. Apparently, I can set the values of the kernel parameters I need to change either at boot time, or in loader.conf. I will try that, once I attach a montitor and keys and figure out how to do it, along with which parameters I need to change, and what the values should be for my system. By the way: thank you for responding to me, and copying the list, as I thought was the best-practice protocol for the list; it seems to have become a forgotten art. Thanks, ~John
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