Michael Green wrote:
On 2/2/06, Per Jessen
wrote: Depends on the config. I have a 4-way IBM Netfinity with 2 Gb RAM - this will do at least 700 processes whilst compiling the Linux kernel.
We are talking about concurrent processes only.
Of course.
I cannot believe compiling the kernel requires ~700 processes running in parallel.
Hmm, I'm not sure now, maybe it was compiling gcc. I know I saw the number showing at least 750.
999 processes seem like a lot for a 2-way machine - depending on what those processes do. Does your machine really die right away?
Yes it does, I'm sure yours will die too unless you have nproc cap either at the level of shell or PAM.
What does your processes do? I'm tempted to try this out just see what happens. /Per Jessen, Zürich