Re: pid_t range question

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com> writes:

> I agree that the mojority of users don't hit this limit, but I've got a couple
> of boxes that push it (they run out of ram before that, but more ram is on
> order).
>
> however it sounds like switching to a 64 bit kernel will avoid this limit, so
> I'll put my efforts into configuring a box to do that.

That is what I would recommend.  Unless you do something weird an painful
like configure a kernel doing the 4G/4G split a 32bit box is going to
have memory problems with more than 32K tasks.

Just remember you need push up /proc/sys/kernel/pid-max to raise the default
on a 64bit box.

Eric