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Date:      Tue, 16 Dec 1997 06:48:17 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Jeffrey Auerbach <jeff@starmedia.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Last PID 
Message-ID:  <199712161448.GAA07051@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:20:45 EST." <3.0.1.32.19971216092045.00940770@officemail.starmedia.net> 

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>This might be a general UNIX question, but I've noticed on my mail server
>running 2.2.5.  Once the PID's reach around 27000 they reset.  The system
>has been up for about twenty days with people sending and receiving
>thousands of emails a day.  Users are also popping hundreds of times per
>hour. 
>
>Do the PID's reset once they hit a certain number?

   Yes, at PID_MAX which is 30000.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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