Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:58:52 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v2 |
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:59:34 +0100 Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com> 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.
So why have we got 26844 tasks. Isn't that a rather more relevant question.
And as I asked before - how does Tejun's work on sanitizing work queues affect this ?
Alan
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