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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:59:44 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        KHalid Faith <maslak@ihlas.net.tr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why have I get kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) message ?
Message-ID:  <20060622135852.B1114@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <003701c69615$e6b4dc50$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym>
References:  <003701c69615$e6b4dc50$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym>

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On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, KHalid Faith wrote:

> I use FreeBSD6.0
>
> My server  give me an error as below
>
> kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7)
>
> When I looked at its value as below
>
> sysctl -a |grep kern.ipc.maxpipekva
> kern.ipc.maxpipekva: 16777216
>
> How can I do about that ?

Add an entry to /boot/loader.conf, similar to:

# cat /boot/loader.conf
kern.ipc.maxpipekva=67108864

I'm up to 64M, with current usage being closer to 40M:

==============================
kern.ipc.maxpipekva: 67108864 - kern.ipc.pipekva: 39112704
running processes:     1528

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