On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Colonel wrote:
> In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> >I also propose to half badness of processes with pid < 1000 - those
> >> >processes are usually also important, because they are called during
> >> >boot-time and they usually handle important system affairs.
> >>
> >>
> >> The belief that boot started processes remain under a pid < 1000 is
> >> flawed. Simple example: the postfix mail server.
> >>
> >
> >agreed, but FWIW my postfix master daemon is pid 434
>
>
> Ah, yes that reminds me that when you take down a service and then
> start it again, you lose that nice low pid. FWIW, my master is 23034
> now. As D Ford stated, paying attention to pid value is not useful.
On a server which is anything but idle, 16bit pids cycle every 1 or 2
days. And many daemons do get restarted (syslog on RH systems), and they
do fork to perform their task (all from [x]inetd, sendmail, and the like).
PID means nothing, expecially when uptime > 100 days its pretty much a
random number (a lot of chances you already restarted almost everything,
unless your configuration is *very* stable).
.TM.
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