Re: PID_MAX (was console hangs, but machine still up)

["Federico G. Schwindt" <fgsch@olimpo.com.br>]

> I did see that once, as I recall. PID in the 30,000's.
> 
> 98573 is more than a little bogus, PID_MAX is defined in
> <sys/proc.h> as 30000, yet I have may many PIDs higher than
> this:
> [snip]
> Something's not right in the process allocation world, methinks.
> 
> Looking at sys/kern/kern_fork.c, around line 150, the spaghetti
> gets the better of me. Somewhere a check for PID_MAX isn't
> working correctly, apparently.

  PID_MAX has been updated a few times lately. The first modification
change the PID_MAX value to 99999, then moved to 65535, and finally
to the actual value, 32766.
  Nothing is wrong there. Just need to recompile your kernel.

  Federico.-

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Let the programmers be many and the managers		Federico G. Schwindt
few -- then all will be productive.			fgsch@openbsd.org