Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.5 fix/improve get_pid()

[Albert D. Cahalan]

Rik van Riel writes:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
>> I almost put 99999, but then I realized that that's silly.
>> For years Linux had a hard limit of about 4000 processes,
>
> That limit was removed some 2 years ago.

Sure. Linux is 11 years old now. Also remember that that
was the _hard_ limit. We had a soft limit near 1000,
with a kernel recompile needed to increase it. Almost
everybody was satisfied with this.

Personally I'd change my adjustable PID limit to 999,
but I wouldn't suggest that as a default. 9999 should
cover almost all systems.

Self-adjusting could be nice. Then everybody starts
with 9, and gains a digit whenever space is 50% full.