Re: Maximum number of processes in Linux

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I have 1GB RAM and a p4 HT 3 GHz.


On 8/16/06, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:

> Shows a consistent 6140.
>

the default limit in proc scales with memory (to avoid really bad
stuff), you can oversize it to 2^16 if you want.

Going over 2^16 is not too good an idea (16 bit counters overflow),
especially if you have hostile users (read: students) on the machine,
since this is the kind of scenario you can trigger on purpose.



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