Re: Monit PID check

[Olivier Kaloudoff]

> Alexander wrote:
> >   On busy system, when a lot of short-living processes is created, and
> >   with random PIDs, it could happen that same PID will be assigned to
> >   new process within one minute when the old one is finished.
>
> Ever encountered that? I don't remember seeing a PID larger than 30000, don't 
> know what the limit is. Unsigned integer maybe?

Yes, nearly. I have worked on a Sun 10k, 16 cpu, where maxpid
was +1000 each second. I think the pid goes back to 0 after 32767