That’s not true. The kernel can boot in 64 bit and 32 bit mode (there are keyboard combos for that). Applications will run in 64 bit mode even when the kernel is in 32 bit mode.
On 06 Aug 2014, at 23:19, Henrik Sarvell <hsarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jorge, forget that question, I just got told that osx only have the > 32bit version. > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Henrik Sarvell <hsarv...@gmail.com> 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 <jacereda@gmailcom> >> wrote: >>> I’m getting pids well above 64k on my laptop (OS X). >>> >>> On 06 Aug 2014, at 22:33, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> 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:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >>> >>> -- >>> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subjectUnsubscribe > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
