Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues

[Anton Blanchard]

> there are a lot of other reasons why you can't go over 64k threads ;)
> (esp on a 32 bit machine)

After all the effort of going to 4kB stacks on x86? :)

> such as all the 16 bit counters in rwsems etc etc... 
> Just Say No(tm) :)

Hmm can you point the 16bit counter out? I can create 1 million NPTL
threads on ppc64 easily, so why not?

As Ingo points out the same proc inode overflow happens with
applications with lots of FDs. 

Anton
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