Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues
From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sun Sep 12 2004 - 07:19:09 EST
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 10:56, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried creating 100,000 threads just for the hell of it. I was
> surprised that it appears to have worked even with pid_max set at 32k.
there are a lot of other reasons why you can't go over 64k threads ;)
(esp on a 32 bit machine)
such as all the 16 bit counters in rwsems etc etc...
Just Say No(tm) :)
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