On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Ph. Marek wrote:
> can somebody please explain why the stock kernel is *slower* than the
> modified with a multiplication inside??
When the pid space gets fragmented, the kernel often has to do a lot of
work to find the next free pid. Until you have wrapped next_pid, that's
not an issue, though.
Matthew.
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