From: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
To: aprasad@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: processes> 2^15
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 21:01:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001104210158.A13496@veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA25698D.00608C13.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA25698D.00608C13.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com>; from aprasad@in.ibm.com on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:27:58PM +0530
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:27:58PM +0530, aprasad@in.ibm.com wrote:
> after reaching process count something around 30568, processes start
> getting pid from start, which ever is the first free entry slot in process
> table. that means we can't have simultaneously more than roughly 2^15
> processes?
> am i correct?
Yes.
(If that displeases you I can give you the trivial patch.
However, you really need some awesome machine before it
becomes reasonable to run that many processes.)
Andries
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-04 13:57 processes> 2^15 aprasad
2000-11-04 18:18 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-04 20:01 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2000-11-07 7:59 ` Arnaud S . Launay
2000-11-07 8:14 ` Matti Aarnio
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