suck it and see, the answerers didn't understand the question. add
nproc=XXX to plan9.ini and use the environment, or hard code code it. i'd
like to see your results for nproc=50 and nproc=5000.

brucee


On 9 January 2014 19:08, Pavel Klinkovský <pavel.klinkovsky@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Steven,
>
>
>     conf.nproc = 100 + ((conf.npage*BY2PG)/MB)*5;
>>     if(cpuserver)
>>             conf.nproc *= 3;
>>     if(conf.nproc > 2000)
>>             conf.nproc = 2000;
>>
>> In general, you will find that 2000 is the highest allowable due to
>> limits imposed by proc.c.
>
>
> but if I understand it correctly it is just "soft limit", not a "hard" one
> inborn in CPU architecture.
>
> By the hard limit I consider something like "maximal capacity of GDT, LDT"
> or something similar, if exists.
>
>
>> At the end of the day, the only way to be sure is to read the source.
>>
>
> I did (of course, I am not an expert on Plan9 kernel), and I did not find
> any "hard limit" there.
> However to be sure I issued my question here.
>
> Pavel
>