Re: Maximum number of processes in Linux

[Arjan van de Ven]

> Shows a consistent 6140.
> 

the default limit in proc scales with memory (to avoid really bad
stuff), you can oversize it to 2^16 if you want. 

Going over 2^16 is not too good an idea (16 bit counters overflow),
especially if you have hostile users (read: students) on the machine,
since this is the kind of scenario you can trigger on purpose.


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