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SubjectRe: PID Wrap <strangeness>
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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