Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl.

[Thomas Hurst]

* Evren Yurtesen (yurtesen at ispro.net) wrote:

> I guess one good question is, how can one see the number of PV entries
> used by a process? shouldnt these appear in the output of ipcs -a
> command?

No, PV entries are a VM thing, not limited to SysV IPC.

> Another good question is, in many places there is references to
> rebooting after putting a new vm.pmap.shpgperproc value to
> loader.conf. However I just changed this on a running system, has it
> really been changed or was I suppose to reboot?

Looking at the code it should be fine, the limit's just a couple of
integers.

> In either case, I already increased vm.pmap.shpgperproc to 2000 (from
> 200) and still the error occurs, there is not so much load on this
> box, maybe there is a leak somewhere?

What sort of load is there?  Do you have a bunch of big processes
sharing significant chunks of memory in any way?

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