From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 13:41:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F4737B402 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:41:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.core.com (shell.core.com [169.207.1.89]) by out0.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.4/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id g2HLg1g42222; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:42:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (raiden@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) with ESMTP id g2HLfI818162; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:41:18 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:41:18 -0600 (CST) From: Steven Lake X-X-Sender: raiden@shell.core.com To: David Greenman Cc: Steven Lake , Subject: Re: PID's at max, what next?? In-Reply-To: <20020316234402.G46010@nexus.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ah, ok. That's what I thought. I just was curious if it rebooted, crashed, or what it did. Thanks. So I can only run 999999 consecutive processes, but I don't have to worry about my process ID's maxing out and fouling things out. Cool. :) On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, David Greenman wrote: > > Ok, this is a curiousity question. But when your server reaches > >it's maximum number of allowed PID's, what does it do? I've never had one > >reach its maximum number of PID's, so I have never seen what happens > >after that. So I'm just curious. Thanks. > > Do you mean the maximum number of processes or do you mean the process ID > number gets to 99999? In the first case (max process limit), you get an error > that says "proc: table is full", but the system continues to run (except that > no more processes can be created). In the second case when the process ID > number reaches 99999, it just wraps around to the first available number > after 100. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org > President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com > President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com > Pave the road of life with opportunities. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message