'kern.maxpipekva exceeded' messages...
Dag-ErlingSmørgrav
des at des.no
Tue Jan 27 08:38:27 PST 2004
Mike Silbersack <silby at silby.com> writes:
> I do not believe that there is a leak. What actually happened is
> that between 5.1 and 5.2 I added pipe memory limits, which had not
> been present before.
Oh! I wasn't aware that the limit did not already exist.
> 1. Pipes overallocate memory greatly; I could probably reduce the
> memory usage of an idle pipe by 8x or so.
My problem is not idle pipes; my problem is that the following system
# sysctl kern.ipc.maxpipekva
kern.ipc.maxpipekva: 8704000
# sysctl kern.ipc.pipekva
kern.ipc.pipekva: 393216
runs out of pipe kva every monday morning when it tries to pipe a
level 0 dump through ssh.
Is there some way to impose a limit on the memory consumed by a single
pipe? I don't care if dump blocks waiting for ssh to push out the
data, but I do care about the system crashing shortly after running
out of pipe kva.
Another problem I have is with a system that runs out of pipe kva when
I create a large number of jails. I really need a way to find out
where all that memory goes...
> If you're interested in working on this right now, I can send you what I
> had planned to do for #1, it would be a very small amount of code,
> although it would require a bit of testing to ensure that it does not
> degrade the performance of pipes by a noticeable amount.
That would be nice. I have several systems I can test it on.
DES
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