From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:15:50 +0000 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1134cdd816339a04ef9a2cdb Subject: Re: [9fans] Maximal number of processes Topicbox-Message-UUID: b1a4d94e-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a1134cdd816339a04ef9a2cdb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 10 January 2014 09:11, Charles Forsyth wrote: > At that point I decided to quite while I was still ahead. 20,000 did not work because it ran out of kernel physical memory. That preallocation could be adjusted, but at some point the available kernel virtual address space will limit what it can allocate. --001a1134cdd816339a04ef9a2cdb Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 10 January 2014 09:11, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.c= om> wrote:
At that point I decided to quite while I was= still ahead.

20,000 did not work because it ran out= of kernel physical memory. That preallocation could be adjusted, but at so= me point the available kernel virtual address space will limit what it can = allocate.
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