From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Irfan Habib <irfan.habib@gmail.com>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Maximum number of processes in Linux
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:19:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155669584.3011.178.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0608151511310.3138@chaos.analogic.com>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-15 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-15 17:59 Irfan Habib
2006-08-15 18:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-15 18:22 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-15 18:22 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-15 19:01 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-15 19:13 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-15 19:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-15 19:19 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-08-15 19:26 ` Irfan Habib
2006-08-15 21:50 ` Avi Kivity
2006-08-16 10:01 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-16 11:33 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-17 8:00 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-08-16 11:58 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-08-15 18:29 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-15 18:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-15 21:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
[not found] <fa.evUDdOgjejpeNWKvgan3aKFF880@ifi.uio.no>
2006-08-15 23:12 ` Robert Hancock
2006-08-15 23:39 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-16 0:04 ` Lee Revell
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