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Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:11:26 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: >32K possible? Yes - on 1GB machine
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Hi!

I played with machine with .5GB ram, and was able to spawn 16000
'sleep forever' processes (compiled statically):

void main(void)
{
	close(0); close(1); close(2); pause();
}

I belive that on 2GB machine, I'd be able to hit 32K processes
limit. 1GB machine _could_ hit it too (someone try that).

Strange thing is that machine does not even try to use swap, but
userland stops working at the end.

								Pavel
-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
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