On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Andy Sy wrote: > > wraparound has been bumped up from 32,000 to 1 billion, improving > > application starting performance on very busy or very long-lived > > systems." > > I don't see how bumping up the PID wraparound can decrease > application startup performance... is this explained? >
my guess: after a wrap-around, you need extra code to check if the candidate PID to be given to a new process is still being used. as the PID space becomes bigger, the longer you need not worry about PID clashes which then saves you CPU cycles. pong -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
