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Date:      Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:29:32 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu>
Cc:        fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Snapshot problems
Message-ID:  <20050705192932.GA46543@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050705175559.GA70037@quark.cs.earlham.edu>
References:  <20050626182031.GA5268@quark.cs.earlham.edu> <20050701130315.C52686@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> <42C6C873.8050808@cs.earlham.edu> <86k6k8yxf2.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050705175559.GA70037@quark.cs.earlham.edu>

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On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:55:59PM -0500, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 12:52:01PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> > Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu> writes:
> > > No joy. The machine hung again yesterday afternoon, with the error
> > > "kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded" repeated over and over again on the
> > > console.
> >=20
> > So you're using a lot of pipes - more than the kernel can handle with
> > the default parameters.  What's your workload?  Do you run a lot of
> > jails?  What is the current value of kern.ipc.maxpipekva?  Have you
> > tried increasing it?
>=20
> I doubled it from 16 million to 32 million, and the machine still crashes.

When you break to DDB, what processes are running or blocked?

Kris
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