How to debug kern.ipc.maxpipekva ?

Rozhuk Ivan <[email protected]> Tue, 26 May 2026 17:49:15 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers,gmane.os.freebsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!


I have some systems that have a lot of records in dmesg:
kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7)
kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7)
kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7)


How to find out who consume all pipes memory?

Is it possible to add in kernel tuning to limit kern.ipc.maxpipekva per process? (like done with files and threads)