From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 22:48:40 2005 Return-Path: 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 5234216A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:48:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57BBD43D54 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:48:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john.destefano@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so700wra for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:48:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=n0W957Szv7FVWue0SRZFHOCn3CnFNvVymFDCOFb8CpyPD8UVYFrUM1nDeIzlXpP2di2BTZ6ECFWwAdqfxAmPS8qk8bIIjoikzSAOMq7NNeJdMYeIxPyorT+II6o/x5nQjgnSizNWQh8E/IMBQfCd5sE5kymE+94ZvV7mnITzRVw= Received: by 10.38.11.13 with SMTP id 13mr28415rnk; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.97.55 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:48:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:48:23 -0500 From: John DeStefano To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20050314173854.GC91771@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050313171401.08B0D16A4DA@hub.freebsd.org> <20050314173854.GC91771@hub.freebsd.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John DeStefano List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:48:40 -0000 On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:38:54 +0000, Kris Kennaway 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