Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:21:31 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: NR_TASKS as config option. |
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On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> Having seen the 2Gig RAM option introduced in 2.3.6, I found it was time > to make NR_TASKS a config option as well. Due to lack of better suited > places (Kernel tuning?) I chose to put it into Kernel hacking. Obvious > patch follows. [Patch relative to 2.3.6 but applies to 2.2.9 as well with > a little fuzz.]
... FYI, i have a patch in the queue that makes nr_tasks a /proc/sys runtime configurable option and removes the GDT limitation in the x86 case. I've run a kernel with 11000 processes. So i think it's not worth improving the configurability of NR_TASKS (in 2.3).
-- mingo
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