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SubjectRe: system hang with "__alloc_page: 1-order allocation failed"

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> * bugfixes for get_pid(). This is the longest part of the patch, but
> it's only necessary if you have more than 10.000 threads running. If you
> have enough memory: launch a forkbomb. If ~ 32760 thread are running the
> kernel enters an endless loop in get_pid() (or around 11000 threads if
> they intentionally create additional sessions and process groups)

I thought (on Intel) there was a 4092 hard limit?

Chers
Chris

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