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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:35:04 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
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Subject: Re: Issue with max_threads (and other resources) and highmem
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Rik wrote:
> > ... A sane upper limit for
> > max_threads would be 10000, this also keeps in mind the
> > fact that we only have 32000 possible PIDs, some of which
> > could be taken by task groups, etc...
>
> ?  I thought the 2.4 kernel had switched to 32 bit pid's long ago.
> Where does the limit of 32000 possible PIDs come from?

Please take a look at kernel/fork.c::get_pid() ...

Rik
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