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[Praveen Ray: Feb 21 11:24] > > > 1] What is the default and theoretical maximum number of processes > > > that you can run at once? > > > > default is limited to 32K by the pid space.. but the pid allocator > > breaks down to be useless well before then. using a bigger pid space, > > a new pid allocator, and the new 2.5 threading code people have run > > 100,000 simultaneous threads which is probably a reasonable > > approximation. > > Probably a stupid question but what's PID space got to do with threads? Each > thread doesn't get it's own PID, does it? > on linux (currently) each thread does get its own pid. I've always found that odd as well.
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