On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:36:46PM +0100, James Bailey wrote: > > On 01.02.2010, at 21:27, Patrick Karl wrote: > >> When I enter music, I incrementally compile it as I go. >> I do my work on a Mac running OS 10.4. There are a fixed number of >> pids available for all the programs running on the Mac.
> Excuse my ignorance, but what is this about a fixed number of pids > available for all the programs? He *might* be right about that -- certain OSes have a fixed limit, say 32,767 pids in use at once. > I noticed that the pid's > were in the 20,000 range. I would assume that they just keep counting up, After a while, the OS will start re-using old pids which are no longer in use. I've seen numbers in the 30,000 range, but I can't recall seeing anything over 32,767. And I definitely *have* seen newer programs running with a pid in the hundreds, despite having other programs in the 20,000 still running. In short, this is exactly the way that unix programs are supposed to act. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
