Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 10:56, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried creating 100,000 threads just for the hell of it. I was
> surprised that it appears to have worked even with pid_max set at 32k.

there are a lot of other reasons why you can't go over 64k threads ;)
(esp on a 32 bit machine)

such as all the 16 bit counters in rwsems etc etc... 
Just Say No(tm) :)

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