Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michel Wilson" <> | Subject | RE: Larger dev_t | Date | Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:54:50 +0200 |
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> Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > You are just delaying the problem then, at some point your uptime will > > be large enough that you have run through all 64bit pids for example. > > 64 bits is enough to fork 1 million processes per second for over > 500,000 years. I think that's putting the problem off far enough. > > -Mitch > - Ever thought about how you would kill a process: kill -9 127892752 doesn't sound very appealing to me. So you'd also need to implement a mechanism that allows for 'easy' selection of processes to kill, for example giving every process with the same name a unique identifier (like httpd_0, httpd_1, httpd_2 and so on).
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