Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:59:11 +0100 | From | "Arnaud S . Launay" <> | Subject | Re: processes> 2^15 |
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Le Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 09:01:58PM +0100, Andries Brouwer a écrit: > > after reaching process count something around 30568, processes start > > getting pid from start, which ever is the first free entry slot in process > > table. that means we can't have simultaneously more than roughly 2^15 > > processes? > > am i correct? > > Yes. > (If that displeases you I can give you the trivial patch. > However, you really need some awesome machine before it > becomes reasonable to run that many processes.)
In the fact, the first limit to be reached will be NR_TASKS defined in linux/tasks.h: #define NR_TASKS 512 /* On x86 Max 4092, or 4090 w/APM configured. */
So I wonder if we could really have more than 4092 process under x86 ?
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