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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:30:32 -0700
From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
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Rik wrote:
> ... A sane upper limit for
> max_threads would be 10000, this also keeps in mind the
> fact that we only have 32000 possible PIDs, some of which
> could be taken by task groups, etc...

?  I thought the 2.4 kernel had switched to 32 bit pid's long ago.
Where does the limit of 32000 possible PIDs come from?
- Dan