Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:52:39 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.minn.net> Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 16-bit pids? (was Re: 16, 32, and 64bit types?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950830015034.13816I-100000@aries> In-Reply-To: <199508282131.QAA27212@mpp.minn.net>
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On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Mike Pritchard wrote:
>
> Since the subject of PID_MAX has come up, what is the reason
> for having it set to 30,000? That isn't really that large of
> a value, especially on a busy system. How about raising it to
> something like 90,000?
Even if you had 1000 processes running on one system, that still
leaves 29000 pids free. Even forking off a new process 10 times a
second will still take you over 45 minutes to cycle through 29000
pids... what's the point of having >30000 PID_MAX?
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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