From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 16 06:20:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA27751 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 06:20:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from officemail.starmedia.net (officemail.starmedia.net [207.25.53.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA27744 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 06:20:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@starmedia.net) Received: from server_2 ([207.25.53.37]) by officemail.starmedia.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA13162 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:20:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jeff@starmedia.net) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19971216092045.00940770@officemail.starmedia.net> X-Sender: jeff@officemail.starmedia.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:20:45 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Jeffrey Auerbach Subject: Last PID Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This might be a general UNIX question, but I've noticed on my mail server running 2.2.5. Once the PID's reach around 27000 they reset. The system has been up for about twenty days with people sending and receiving thousands of emails a day. Users are also popping hundreds of times per hour. Do the PID's reset once they hit a certain number? Jeffrey Auerbach Director of Technical Operations StarMedia Network (212)548-9618 http://www.starmedia.com