Re: [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increasepid_max v2

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Apr 21 2010 - 15:51:31 EST


On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:12:13PM +0100, Hedi Berriche wrote:
> Let's also not forget all those ephemeral user space tasks (udev and the likes)
> that will be spawned at boot time on even large systems with even more
> thousands of disks, arguably one might consider hack initrd and similar to work
> around the problem and set pid_max as soon as /proc becomes available but it's
> a bit of a PITA.

udev should properly handle large numbers of cpus and the tasks that it
spawns so as to not overload things. If not, and you feel it is
creating too many tasks, please let the udev developers know and they
will be glad to work with you on this issue.

thanks,

greg k-h
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