5.2-RC and kern.maxpipekva exceeded

Roman Streltsov warlock at voip.kg
Fri Jan 9 22:11:17 PST 2004


Hello current,

I'd got message after simultaneous coredumping network program (I suspect pipe 
leak in code) and failing of watchdog shell script.

kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7).

I guess I should tune 
kern.ipc.maxpipekva and kern.ipc.maxpipekvawired

But I haven't any clue how to make the watcher is reliable. Statment like 
PIDS=`ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep mydaemon | awk '{print $1}'` looks like 
potential troublemaker.

For RC that is odd behavior and on 5.1 (and earler) box I hadn't never see 
synchronous fails for several programs.

By the way, there wasn't any mention about kern.maxpipekva in tuning(7)

Could somebody give me idea how resolve the trouble?
Thanx
Roman



More information about the freebsd-current mailing list