kern.maxpipekva exceeded, please see tuning(7)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 03:44:32PM -0500, John DeStefano wrote:
> I have seen a mention or two of this error on the lists before,
> including this link to the "current" list I pulled up from Google:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-January/019150.html
> 
> In my case, the errors began after my exploratory two-year-old found
> the shiny 'reset' button and could not resist its powers.  I'm also
> getting HDD error messages on boot, 'fsck -y' shows all the file
> systems as read-only and returns errors on one of them, and I can no
> longer SSH into my system (due to, I assume, too many open file
> handles), or even get a command in on my console without an error
> popping in..
> 
> The solution does not seem clear cut to me, and it seems the error
> message itself does not provide valid (or, at least, sufficient)
> information.
> 
> Could someone please help, or point me in the right direction?

Did you read the tuning(7) manpage, as instructed?

Kris