Why have I get kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) message ?

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, KHalid Faith wrote:

> I use FreeBSD6.0
>
> My server  give me an error as below
>
> kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7)
>
> When I looked at its value as below
>
> sysctl -a |grep kern.ipc.maxpipekva
> kern.ipc.maxpipekva: 16777216
>
> How can I do about that ?

Add an entry to /boot/loader.conf, similar to:

# cat /boot/loader.conf
kern.ipc.maxpipekva=67108864

I'm up to 64M, with current usage being closer to 40M:

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kern.ipc.maxpipekva: 67108864 - kern.ipc.pipekva: 39112704
running processes:     1528

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