> From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@meteng.on.ca>
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Mathijs Mohlmann wrote:
> >"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> >> A hard-coded number of 300 is an eye-opener.
> >
> >I'm starting to think, that 300 isn't even low enough. My redhat sysinit
> >scripts use so many pids, that my first daemon has pid 340. 600 would be
> >a saner value on my system.
>
> Perhaps it would be a good idea to use a /proc/sys entry then?
> /proc/sys/kernel/low_pid
>
> At the end of boot time, at the end of the rc.local script could
> do:
>
> echo $(( $$ + 20 )) > /proc/sys/kernel/low_pid
Why 20? Couldn't/shouldn't that be tunable as well?
--Amy
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