Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: ... > As an aside, I sent "ps aux" to a text file to easily view that first > column. The file's only 165 lines long yet the PID column's last > sequentially numbered entry at that second was "28909". That makes me > curious as to how those are assigned. Were there that many processes > that opened then closed when finished, or are there classes of PIDs > that things fall into, or..... :)
PIDs are assigned when a new process is started, the range is between 0 and 32K with 0 and 1 being used by systemd or whatever init you are using. top is an interesting command to use along with ps. songbird