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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:11:10 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 'kern.maxpipekva exceeded' messages...
Message-ID:  <20040127130947.C4636@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpptd5mep9.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <20040119233546.S39477@odysseus.silby.com> <xzpznc9tzgz.fsf@dwp.des.no><xzpr7xl8i1a.fsf@dwp.des.no> <xzpptd5mep9.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> writes:
> > There is a limit, no single pipe can grow beyond BIG_PIPE_SIZE, which i=
s
> > presently defined as 64K.  Well, unless there is a leak, of course. :)
>
> The backup script uses exactly *one* pipe (between dump and ssh), and
> that one pipe seems to make all the difference between using barely
> 300 kB pipe kva, and hitting the 8 MB limit...

Whoa!

>
> > Is it really crashing?  That's not supposed to happen. :(
>
> Yes, it crashes when it runs out of pipekva.  I wasn't there when it
> happened, but I did get a frantic phone call asking what to do :|

Double whoa.  You'd better see if you can recreate this problem before
investigating any of what I wrote; the code as it exists right now should
have handled that situation without a problem.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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