problems with 5.2.1 install

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Feb 26 18:03:54 PST 2004


On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 06:15:19PM -0500, Daniel Fisher wrote:
> I just did a clean install of 5.2.1 and I'm having several problems.
> 
> 1) processes are getting stuck in ttywri
> 
> They eventually finish running, but the machine will sit for several minutes 
> with no load.
> 
> 2) I'm getting the kernel error: kern.maxpipekva exceeded,
>    please see tuning(7)
> 
> I know I can up the value using sysctl, but I guess the default value is set 
> too low.
> 
> 3) I'm getting the error: Pipe call failed: Too many open
>    files in system, when I do things like make clean.
> 
> Changing the kern.maxfiles doesn't seem to fix this problem.

Your root problem might be 2); address it and see whether the others
fall into line.

Kris
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