Re: WANTED: Re: VM lockup with 2.4.8 / 2.4.8pre8
Colonel (klink@clouddancer.com)
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:27:34 -0700 (PDT)
In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote:
>
>>
>> >I also propose to half badness of processes with pid < 1000 - those
>> >processes are usually also important, because they are called during
>> >boot-time and they usually handle important system affairs.
>>
>>
>> The belief that boot started processes remain under a pid < 1000 is
>> flawed. Simple example: the postfix mail server.
>>
>
>agreed, but FWIW my postfix master daemon is pid 434
Ah, yes that reminds me that when you take down a service and then
start it again, you lose that nice low pid. FWIW, my master is 23034
now. As D Ford stated, paying attention to pid value is not useful.
--
Windows 2001: "I'm sorry Dave ... I'm afraid I can't do that."
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