From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 18 11:08:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C0616A4CE; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:08:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p15140542.pureserver.info (papendorf-se.de [217.160.222.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30AF43D1F; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:08:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nagilum.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by p15140542.pureserver.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id E116E2F411C; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:08:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from p15140542.pureserver.info ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (p15140542 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07255-03; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:08:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cakebox.homeunix.net (stgt-d9bb31e6.pool.mediaWays.net [217.187.49.230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by p15140542.pureserver.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F422F4119; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:08:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cakebox.homeunix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B27E3029E1; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:07:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cakebox.homeunix.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cakebox.tis [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15354-06; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:06:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.1.1.4] (scorpio.tis [10.1.1.4]) by cakebox.homeunix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CCE302902; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:06:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <414C16F9.3000608@nagilum.org> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:07:37 +0200 From: Nagilum User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Puna Tannehill References: <414707C5.3010803@imagescape.com> In-Reply-To: <414707C5.3010803@imagescape.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cakebox.homeunix.net X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at papendorf-se.de cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded, error X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:08:15 -0000 Hi Puna, This looks like there occured a looping recursion, there is definately something wrong with your ports. Maybe try to reinstall the dependencies forcefully after bringing your ports tree up-to-date (if that alone does not already help) Kind regards, Alex. Puna Tannehill wrote: > On a freshly rebuild v5.3-BETA4... > > A failed compile of sysutils/fastest_cvsup led me to run 'make clean' > before trying again. It took over 5 minutes to run make clean, and at > the very end I got the following: > > # make clean > kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) > Pipe call failed: Too many open files in system > Pipe call failed: Too many open files in system > ===> Cleaning for libtool-1.5.8 > ===> Cleaning for perl-5.8.5 > ===> Cleaning for fastest_cvsup-0.2.8 > > There is nothing specifically in tuning about this particular knob, > but from poking around I get the feeling that it's about memory > management of the kernel IPC subsystem. > > Running 'sysctl kern.ipc.maxpipekva' shows: > > kern.ipc.maxpipekva=1257472 > > Hunting around on in the archives, I came up with people getting this > error while doing very intensive compiles. Seems strange to me that I > might get such an error on a 15min uptime, cold-booted machine and > just doing a 'make clean'. And thoughts? > > Puna > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"