Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 25 Mar 2001 08:15:24 -0800 | | From | Mitchell Blank Jr <> | | Subject | Re: Larger dev_t |
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Wichert Akkerman wrote: > You are just delaying the problem then, at some point your uptime will > be large enough that you have run through all 64bit pids for example.
64 bits is enough to fork 1 million processes per second for over 500,000 years. I think that's putting the problem off far enough.
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