6.1: kern.ipc.maxpipekva

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Dan Nelson wrote:

> "fstat | grep pipe" will tell you what processes have them open on what
> fds.  pipes on fds 0, 1 and 2 are probably from shell pipelines.

Yowch, everything uses a pipe ... most of it is postfix related stuff, 
mind you ...

pluto# fstat | grep pipe | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u
anvil
cleanup
csh
flush
fstat
grep
httpd
imapd
inetd
java
lmtp
lmtpd
local
master
nsd
perl5.8.8
php
pickup
pop3d
proxymap
qmgr
sh
smtp
smtpd
sshd
trivial-rewrite
pluto# fstat | grep pipe | awk '{print $2}' | wc -l
     8707

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