From:	sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Process ID allocation methods
22 Mar 1998 13:57:48 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<01BD557C.A9B52A90.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
Cc:	"cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> > Have there been complaints about the pids wrapping too fast or have 
people
> > been running out of pids?
>
> People have definitely been running out of pids.  I see the occasional
> "fork: no more processes" message in peoples' complaints to the list.

I'm sure, the message was not because of process table overflow. Did you 
ever try to run more than 100 processes on windows nt?-) When running 
configure/make etc I never saw more than 20-30 simultaneous cygwin 
processes running.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
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