Re: [PATCH] Core patch for 32-bit UIDs

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:05:53 +1300

> Now, about those 16 bit PID's... is it really fair to
> allow more users than threads or processes ?
> (Just kidding. At least for now.)

This may be a good point... one could invisage >32k processes on a
large NUMA box (although the shceduling latency might be a tad
horrible)

-cw

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