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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: kern.ipc.maxpipekva ...
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
[ ... ]
> Figuring that the last time I checked, I was using something like 7000 
> pipes, @ 16k each, I should be setting it closer to 128M, and that is 
> assuming no 64k pipes ...
> 
> So, is there an 'upper max' that it won't allow me to set it past?

Read "man tuning" about KVA.

-- 
-Chuck