Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965174AbWHOTUP (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:20:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965224AbWHOTUP (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:20:15 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:1239 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965174AbWHOTUN (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:20:13 -0400 Subject: Re: Maximum number of processes in Linux From: Arjan van de Ven To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" Cc: Willy Tarreau , Irfan Habib , Linux kernel In-Reply-To: References: <3420082f0608151059s40373a0bg4a1af3618c2b1a05@mail.gmail.com> <20060815182219.GL8776@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:19:44 +0200 Message-Id: <1155669584.3011.178.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 596 Lines: 17 > Shows a consistent 6140. > the default limit in proc scales with memory (to avoid really bad stuff), you can oversize it to 2^16 if you want. Going over 2^16 is not too good an idea (16 bit counters overflow), especially if you have hostile users (read: students) on the machine, since this is the kind of scenario you can trigger on purpose. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/