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SubjectRe: pid_t range question
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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.

Eric
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