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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
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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