From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 08:45:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF7016A4CF for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:45:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org (bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org [198.22.63.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B394843FBD for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org) Received: from bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org (mwlucas@localhost [127.0.0.1])hAAGjDlY001295 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:45:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost)hAAGjD7R001294 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:45:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:45:13 -0500 From: "Michael W. Lucas" To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031110164513.GA828@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=4.0 tests=USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: erroneous message from locked-up machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:45:17 -0000 I came in to work today to find one of my -current machines unable to open a pipe. (This probably had a lot to do with the spamd that went stark raving nutters overnight, but that's a separate problem.) A power cycle fixed the problem, but /var/log/messages was filled with: Nov 10 11:05:44 bewilderbeast kernel: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7). Interesting. bewilderbeast~;sysctl kern.maxpipekva sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.maxpipekva' bewilderbeast~; And tuning(7) doesn't mention this, either. Is this just work-in-progress, or did someone forget to commit something? ==ml PS: Lesson of the day: no pipe KVA, no su. Great fun on remote machines! :-) -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org Today's chance of throwing it all away to start a goat farm: 41.8% http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Absolute OpenBSD: http://www.AbsoluteOpenBSD.com/