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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.5 fix/improve get_pid()
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:09:33 -0400 (EDT)
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Linus Torvalds writes:

> "ps" seems to do ok from a visual standpoint at least up to 99 million. 
> Maybe it won't look that good after that, I'm too lazy to test.

Mind sharing what "ps -fj", "ps -lf", and "ps j" look like?
The standard tty is 80x24 BTW, and we already have serious
problems due to ever-expanding tty names.

How about a default limit of 9999, to be adjusted by
sysctl as needed?

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