Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: pid_t range question | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:39:55 -0700 |
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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.
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