On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:48:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > I would suggest something like this:
> > > - make pid_max start out at 32k or whatever, to make "ps" look nice if
> > > nothing else.
> > > - every time we have _any_ trouble at all with looking up a new pid, we
> > > double pid_max.
> >
> > > + if (nr_threads > pid_max >> 4)
> The people who care about ps being pretty will probably never see more
> than 5 digits.
Agreed. While on the topic of number of digits: If this is in place
we could easily start out pid_max at say 9999, fitting the pids in
one less digit than we normally do now.
(I've always thought we should have sticked with pid_max at the
traditional Unix value of 32000, and not 32767).
Roger.
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