Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:41:18 -0600 (CST) From: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PID's at max, what next?? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0203171538220.17952-100000@shell.core.com> In-Reply-To: <20020316234402.G46010@nexus.root.com>
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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
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