It’s a 64bit 8 GB machine. BSDs work differently: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics-processeshtml
Maximum seems to be 99999, at least on FreeBSD. On 06 Aug 2014, at 23:09, Henrik Sarvell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jorge, how much RAM does it have, is it a 64bit machine? > > I have checked the number Alex mentioned on some of our servers, all > running Ubuntu 12.04, servers below 64GB RAM have that number set to > 32768 per default, machines with 128GB got 98304. > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Jorge Acereda Maciá <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I’m getting pids well above 64k on my laptop (OS X). >> >> On 06 Aug 2014, at 22:33, Alexander Burger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Randall, >>> >>>> I believe that modern Linux and FreeBSD implementations use 32 bit >>>> ints for the pid_t. >>> >>> Right. >>> >>>> There will never be that many processes on a 32 bit >>>> OS, but since they just go forward until they wrap, getting a pid bigger >>>> than 16 bits is probably even to be expected. >>> >>> However, they don't plainly wrap. There is a system limit in the kernel, >>> controlled via "/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max". >>> >>> Even on 64-bit machines (where pid_t is also an 'int', i.e. a 64-bit >>> number), PIDs don't get up to such huge numbers. >>> >>> ♪♫ Alex >>> -- >>> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe >> >> -- >> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subjectUnsubscribe > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe
