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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: joep@fwi.uva.nl (Joep Vesseur) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 18 Jan 1996 10:44:17 +0100 Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam Lines: 9 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4dl4ph$29u@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4cu7t0$mg5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4cv8j1$59k@park.uvsc.edu> <4d37d4$j0l@gremlin.backfire.mn.org> <DL29Az.Ax2@ftel.co.uk> <bryDL3r9p.2oq@netcom.com> <4da5nl$8l5@news.voicenet.com> <bryDL5wtq.4Fo@netcom.com> <4dc00a$j2f@park.uvsc.edu> <bryDL7E84.LG3@netcom.com> <4decke$6nh@park.uvsc.edu> <4dg9b0$74d@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <4dh4kc$rnv@park.uvsc.edu> <4di4dc$je@microl4.microlise.UUCP> <4di4qa$jf@microl4.microlise.UUCP> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2027 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2186 comp.unix.solaris:57617 comp.unix.aix:69030 andrewg@microlise.co.uk (Andrew Gierth) writes: [on AIX the] >Process table has an upper bound of 131072 (on 3.2.5, anyway). No. PIDs can grow to 131072, but the process table is limited to 512 entries (according to the PROCMASK definition in sys/proc.h) Joep