On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:07:50PM +0900, Naoaki Maeda wrote:
> Gerrit Huizenga wrote:>
> +By default, the sys_total_tasks is set to 131072(128k), and forkrate is set
> > +to 1 million and forkrate_interval is set to 3600 seconds. Which means the
> > +total number of tasks in a system is limited to 131072 and the forks are
> > +limited to 1 million per hour.
>
> From the same point of view, the default value of forkrate should be
> no limit. (In addition, 1 million tasks per hour is not an abnormally
> high rate.)
It is quite high. however, in some applications I can immagine that a
machine would indeed trigger a very high fork rate.
For example, a machine that runs lots of shell scripts that call each
other, may all of a sudden be forking the required 300/second....
Roger.
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