Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:14:14 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: PID Wrap <strangeness> |
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Mathijs Mohlmann wrote:
>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:37:46 +0100 >From: Mathijs Mohlmann <mathijs@knoware.nl> >To: root@chaos.analogic.com >Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu >Subject: Re: PID Wrap <strangeness> > >"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: >> A hard-coded number of 300 is an eye-opener. > >I'm starting to think, that 300 isn't even low enough. My redhat sysinit >scripts use so many pids, that my first daemon has pid 340. 600 would be >a saner value on my system.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to use a /proc/sys entry then? /proc/sys/kernel/low_pid
At the end of boot time, at the end of the rc.local script could do:
echo $(( $$ + 20 )) > /proc/sys/kernel/low_pid
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