Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > 1. weak security enhancement
> > 2. cosmetic (backwards, IMHO)
> > 3. speed (avoid PIDs likely to be used)
> 
> Well, weak security enhancement translates to "nop" in my book, but
> I guess if that's really what people were trying to arrange...
> 

Well, how many times did you do kill <pid> from command line after doing ps?
If you randomly kill some other process because pids wrapped too fast, it is bad.
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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         

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