From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 12 04:49:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA15329 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 04:49:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA15105 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 04:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA08803; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:40:49 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA01344; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:53:54 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199608121153.NAA01344@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Growing PID's To: paul@nation-net.com (Paul Walsh) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:53:53 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <320F1025.4739@nation-net.com> from Paul Walsh at "Aug 12, 96 12:06:13 pm" Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > My PID's are getting bigger and bigger , mainly , I think due to httpd. > Last reboot about 60 days ago, my PID's are at about 25000. > > Is this OK? What's the upper limit? /usr/include/sys/proc.h:#define PID_MAX 30000 at which point a wrap occurs and pids start at 100 again. > > -- > paul@nation-net.com Walsh Simmons > 0161-839 9337 Manchester, UK > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de