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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 08:15:24 -0800
From: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>
To: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>
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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.

-Mitch
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