Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:44:02 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PID's at max, what next?? Message-ID: <20020316234402.G46010@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0203162225310.446-100000@shell.core.com>; from raiden@shell.core.com on Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:29:23PM -0600 References: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0203162225310.446-100000@shell.core.com>
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> 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
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