Re: pid ranges (Was: (bash) How (really!) does the "current job" get determined?)

On 07.10.2024 13:53, Kenny McCormack wrote:

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Personally, I don't really see the point (in increasing the max pid #). 
For practical purposes, it seems unlikely you'll ever need it (*), but then
again, maybe there really are big systems out there that need to be running
more than 32K processes at a time.

Yes, any [multi-user] server system will likely need larger limits
(nowadays). I forgot that my (de facto) "single-user" system is in
principle able to serve hundreds of users (or more) and must be
able to handle all their processes.

 
(*) And, as noted earlier, having big pid numbers makes "ps" listings weird.

IMO the 'ps' options and output is anyway a pain per se. I wonder
why I haven't yet written my own ps-fontend (based on option '-o');
probably because I don't use it often, only in case of problems.

Janis