Hi! I played with machine with .5GB ram, and was able to spawn 16000 'sleep forever' processes (compiled statically): void main(void) { close(0); close(1); close(2); pause(); } I belive that on 2GB machine, I'd be able to hit 32K processes limit. 1GB machine _could_ hit it too (someone try that). Strange thing is that machine does not even try to use swap, but userland stops working at the end. Pavel -- I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/