Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965238AbWHOT0m (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:26:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965230AbWHOT0l (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:26:41 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.238]:59968 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965238AbWHOT0k (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:26:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=m6sCRfktEJqkaOpw98jWKixn/9dSRrx+7/RdKw4S6MYxsPopNMBVB7k3YSspD9TtNguiKLd3qTu7Wb1uQUc5eEgv3s+urdSlJ7ZWlo3uePmTLRlnWeYJGoERxArJj78sXFGP8FeGxd5VimSc8gNGsZhLt4hef/BDcOJ0FlNfmLw= Message-ID: <3420082f0608151226h32dc20c1oe0b20549922c8f7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:26:32 +0500 From: "Irfan Habib" To: "Linux kernel" Subject: Re: Maximum number of processes in Linux In-Reply-To: <1155669584.3011.178.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3420082f0608151059s40373a0bg4a1af3618c2b1a05@mail.gmail.com> <20060815182219.GL8776@1wt.eu> <1155669584.3011.178.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 22 I have 1GB RAM and a p4 HT 3 GHz. On 8/16/06, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > 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/