In the last episode (May 19), Ewald Jenisch said: > > I would suggest keeping an eye on kern.ipc.pipekva and trying to > > correlate any changes to the activity on the system at the time. > > I've already set this up - and it slowly (over days) is creeping up, e.g. > > May 12 18:00:58 CEST 2005: kern.ipc.pipekva: 114688 > May 19 19:23:29 CEST 2005: kern.ipc.pipekva: 262144 > > At least I know what kern.ipc.pipekva is rising but, for me the most > interesting part is, what actually is using up these resources?
Pipes :) > Is there any chance to get hold of the respective process/program? lsof | grep PIPE should do the trick. Lsof's SIZE/OFF column shows the allocated buffer size for that pipe. Most of the time you'll see either 0 (pipe has never been used) or 16384 (default value). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"