Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753426Ab0DUJTq (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:19:46 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:36648 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751332Ab0DUJTp (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:19:45 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:23:50 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Mike Travis Cc: Ingo Molnar , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linus Torvalds , Hedi Berriche , Jack Steiner , Andrew Morton , Robin Holt , LKML Subject: Re: [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v2 Message-ID: <20100421102350.4c222e6b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4BCE5A73.3000904@sgi.com> References: <4BCE579C.5070100@sgi.com> <4BCE5A73.3000904@sgi.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 531 Lines: 10 > of 32k will not be enough. A system with 1664 CPU's, there are 25163 processes > started before the login prompt. It's estimated that with 2048 CPU's we will pass Is that perhaps the bug not the 32K limit ? and does Tejun's work on work queue sanity help avoid the need for this ? -- 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/