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Subject: Re: Snapshot problems
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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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