From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 01:51:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481F116A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:51:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-04-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD0B43D31 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:51:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from BARTON (cpe-065-184-201-054.ec.rr.com [65.184.201.54]) j2E1ppCh009273 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:51:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:00:48 +0000 From: Jason Henson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050313171401.08B0D16A4DA@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: (from john.destefano@gmail.com on Sun Mar 13 15:44:32 2005) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.2.6 Message-Id: <1110765648l.17082l.2l@BARTON> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:51:54 -0000 On 03/13/05 15:44:32, John DeStefano wrote: > I have seen a mention or two of this error on the lists before, > including this link to the "current" list I pulled up from Google: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-January/019150.ht= ml >=20 > In my case, the errors began after my exploratory two-year-old found > the shiny 'reset' button and could not resist its powers. I'm also > getting HDD error messages on boot, 'fsck -y' shows all the file > systems as read-only and returns errors on one of them, and I can no > longer SSH into my system (due to, I assume, too many open file > handles), or even get a command in on my console without an error > popping in.. >=20 > The solution does not seem clear cut to me, and it seems the error > message itself does not provide valid (or, at least, sufficient) > information. >=20 > Could someone please help, or point me in the right direction? >=20 > Thanks, as always, > John > _______________________________________________ FreeBSD is very robust with power failures, but that was a reset =20 button. Do you have acpi on? When I hit my power button every once in =20 a while my system shuts down properly. Try booting into single user =20 mode and do a manual mount and fsck. And just to help you out: $ sysctl -ad | grep pipekva kern.ipc.maxpipekva: Pipe KVA limit kern.ipc.pipekva: Pipe KVA usage $ sysctl -a | grep pipekva kern.ipc.maxpipekva: 8634368 kern.ipc.pipekva: 344064 $ uname -a FreeBSD BARTON 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #5: Mon Mar 7 =20 20:51:09 EST 2005 jason@BARTON:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NINAMORI i386 $