Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:07:37 +0200 From: Nagilum <freebsd@nagilum.org> To: Puna Tannehill <puna@imagescape.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded, error Message-ID: <414C16F9.3000608@nagilum.org> In-Reply-To: <414707C5.3010803@imagescape.com> References: <414707C5.3010803@imagescape.com>
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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"
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