From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>, Manfred <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: minor bugs around fork_init
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 21:23:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001224212331.A531@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A44D3F3.522AD08A@colorfullife.com> <20001223233806.A886@veritas.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001223233806.A886@veritas.com>; from Andries Brouwer on Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:38:06PM +0100
Hi!
> > * get_pid causes a deadlock when all pid numbers are in use.
> > In the worst case, only 10900 threads are required to exhaust
> > the 15 bit pid space.
>
> Yes. I posted a patch for 31-bit pids once or twice.
> There is no great hurry, but on the other hand, it is always
> better to make these changes long before it is really urgent.
On 2Gig machine, you should be able to overflow 16 bits. So it is
quite urgent.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-26 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-23 16:33 minor bugs around fork_init Manfred
2000-12-23 17:12 ` test13-pre4 fails to compile ebi4
2000-12-23 18:12 ` Kai Germaschewski
2000-12-23 22:38 ` minor bugs around fork_init Andries Brouwer
2000-12-24 20:23 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2000-12-26 12:06 ` Manfred
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