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Date:      Sun, 03 Jul 2005 12:52:01 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu>
Cc:        fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Snapshot problems
Message-ID:  <86k6k8yxf2.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <42C6C873.8050808@cs.earlham.edu> (Skylar Thompson's message of "Sat, 02 Jul 2005 12:01:39 -0500")
References:  <20050626182031.GA5268@quark.cs.earlham.edu> <20050701130315.C52686@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> <42C6C873.8050808@cs.earlham.edu>

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Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu> writes:
> No joy. The machine hung again yesterday afternoon, with the error
> "kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded" repeated over and over again on the
> console.

So you're using a lot of pipes - more than the kernel can handle with
the default parameters.  What's your workload?  Do you run a lot of
jails?  What is the current value of kern.ipc.maxpipekva?  Have you
tried increasing it?

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no




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