Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:18:35 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v2 |
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On 04/21/2010 12:59 PM, Hedi Berriche wrote: > 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.
That is 15 kernel threads per CPU.
Reducing the number of kernel threads sounds like a useful thing to do.
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