On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 13:35:35 +0000 (+0000), Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> 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.
Perhaps we need a simple version solely for this reason then - massively
multi-threaded/forked programs are out there. Maybe just add some
random number (or loop around a set of numbers (1, 2, 3, 7, 11 perhaps)).
If this is a good idea then I'm sure some mathmatician can point out a good
way...
Adrian
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