From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 17 20:23:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E2D16A47E for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:23:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253A643D45 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:23:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD098290C20; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:23:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 59149-02; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:23:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532B6290C1F; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:23:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 033FF5C0A4; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:23:31 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEEA64A482; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:23:31 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:23:31 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Maxim Konovalov In-Reply-To: <20060617234931.W41802@mp2.macomnet.net> Message-ID: <20060617172245.C1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060617164334.K1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060617234931.W41802@mp2.macomnet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1: kern.ipc.maxpipekva X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:23:31 -0000 On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > 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. See my other note, but I take it just adding: kern.ipc.maxpipekva=25165824 and reboot is the wrong thing to do, since the server didn't come back :( ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664