Bug#1853: top fails after 130 processes?
Hello Karl Ferguson!
}Package: procps
}Version: 0.97-4
}I was running top on my system tonight and it showed the stats of 124
}processes etc etc. Then on the next "view" 5 seconds later it spits out:
}
}top: Help! Too many processes
}
}Then it exits, and wont let me run it until it's below 130ish - is this what
}it's meant to do? Otherwise killing processes that run away when using over
}120 odd processes would be murder going through a normal ps list.
As I remember this is a strange behaviour. It is based in two things:
a) newer kernel have a process limit of 256, if I'm correct. (I don't
remember where this is defined)
b) Older kernel only have a limit of 130 or so. A `top' that was
compiled on such a system will only allow you to have that much
processes.
In former times this was a trick to test the distribution. You can
easily check wether the maintainer made the work to compile this
himself or to copy it from whereever. I'm a bit confused if this beat
Debian, too.
Regards,
Joey
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