Anand Jahagirdar wrote:
Hello All I tried to execute a program which creates 8152 process.( i=0; while( i<14) i++ fork(); ) with ulimit 8200. This program created 8152 processes and then stopped and came back to command prompt. this proves that my machine do have sufficient resources to create 8000 processes.
Perhaps, but it does not necessarily result in 8000+ processes all in existence at the same time. Unless there's more to that program than the one line you show above. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/