Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues

From: Anton Blanchard (anton_at_samba.org)
Date: 09/12/04

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    Date:	Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:30:00 +1000
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>

     
    > there are a lot of other reasons why you can't go over 64k threads ;)
    > (esp on a 32 bit machine)

    After all the effort of going to 4kB stacks on x86? :)

    > such as all the 16 bit counters in rwsems etc etc...
    > Just Say No(tm) :)

    Hmm can you point the 16bit counter out? I can create 1 million NPTL
    threads on ppc64 easily, so why not?

    As Ingo points out the same proc inode overflow happens with
    applications with lots of FDs.

    Anton
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