From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 28 12:15: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from noid.org (para.noid.org [209.247.165.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4F537B424 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:15:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrlist@noid.org) Received: from snicko (adsl-63-201-204-82.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.201.204.82]) by noid.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA04424 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:19:20 -0700 Message-ID: <004701c0d017$721cf720$0102010a@noid.org> From: "Nick's Lists" To: References: <01042722591800.00364@cthulhu> Subject: pipeinit: cannot allocate pipe -- out of kvm -- code = 3 Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:12:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks - I'm running into a rather strange problem that's got me stumped.. . . The box is a dual P3 with 2g ram running 4.2 release. The application is qmail handling inbound mail. The out of the box configuration of the box was running out of open files, so I bumped maxusers to 512 in the kernel. Ever since then, the box has been panicing and rebooting with "pipeinit: cannot allocate pipe -- out of kvm -- code = 3". Since then, I've cut max users to 256, 128 and finally 64. I bumped kern.maxfiles up to 5000 to compensate with maxusers = 64. The box is still crashing with the out of kvm panic after a few hours of runtime. I've done some digging around, but haven't been able to find much about this panic, let alone any kinds of possible solutions. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions as to what I could try? Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message