Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:59:34 +0100 | From | Hedi Berriche <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v2 |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:20 Alan Cox wrote: | > of 32k will not be enough. A system with 1664 CPU's, there are 25163 processes | > started before the login prompt. It's estimated that with 2048 CPU's we will pass | | Is that perhaps the bug not the 32K limit?
Doubt it: I just checked on an *idle* 1664 CPUs system and I can see 26844 tasks, all but few being kernel threads.
Worst case scenario i.e. 4096 CPUs system (+ typically thousands of disks) will most certainly pain to boot, if it ever manages to, when pid_max is set to 32K.
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