Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 5 Nov 1998 15:23:18 +0100 (MET) | | From | Stefan Ring <> | | Subject | Re: 10,000 fds, 10,000 tasks |
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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> >> 1) Is there a maximum amount of TASKS that I can have? I know > >> that this number is tunable in "tasks.h", but are there any other limits > >> that I should be aware of? (Can I just define it as 10,000?) > > > >Its tunable. On some platforms (eg X86) it has a hardware limit. There > >shouldnt be a software one but Im not an Alpha geek > > can anyone tell me the hardware limit for x86 ? > 2.1.116 only works for me with up to 2048 tasks. >
in theory, it should be 8192 processes, since that's the number of descriptors that fit in the GDT, a little fewer actually as there are other things that have to be put into the GDT
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