Re: [9fans] Maximal number of processes

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> launching 32000 processes was not possible.  the kernel got stuck.

sloppy statement.  it's not clear if the kernel was really stuck or just
hit something exponential.

> here's one thing that's not immediately obvious, even when running the
> kernel.  conv.nmach must be less than 0x7fffffff/(1000*1000) = 2147
> to prevent reprioritize from doing silly things:
>
> 	/*
> 	 *  fairshare = 1.000 * conf.nproc * 1.000/load,
> 	 * except the decimal point is moved three places
> 	 * on both load and fairshare.
> 	 */
> 	fairshare = (conf.nmach*1000*1000)/load;

and, look.  the comment's wrong.  never read the comments!

- erik