Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:52:02 +0400 (MSD) From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1: kern.ipc.maxpipekva Message-ID: <20060617234931.W41802@mp2.macomnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20060617164334.K1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060617164334.K1114@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, 16:44-0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Jun 17 16:00:03 pluto kernel: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) > Jun 17 16:00:04 pluto kernel: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) I thought about removing this reference but then decided that better to add a couple of words to tuning(7) man page (and didn't add). > but I can't seem to find anything in tuning(7) about it ... so, what > is it and how do I monitor for it? kern/sys_pipe.c: * In order to limit the resource use of pipes, two sysctls exist: * * kern.ipc.maxpipekva - This is a hard limit on the amount of pageable * address space available to us in pipe_map. This value is normally * autotuned, but may also be loader tuned. * * kern.ipc.pipekva - This read-only sysctl tracks the current amount of * memory in use by pipes. -- Maxim Konovalov
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