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Subject: Re: Growing PID's
To: paul@nation-net.com (Paul Walsh)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:49:51 +0200 (MESZ)
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In-Reply-To: <320F1025.4739@nation-net.com> from "Paul Walsh" at Aug 12, 96 12:06:13 pm
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E-mail message from Paul Walsh contained:
> 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?

Yes.  30000.  They loop back to 100.  To me this happens many times daily.

/Marino