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Re: #define NR_TASKS ??



In Daniel Kobras's email, 23-05-2001:
> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:30:43PM +0530, Viral wrote:
> > mproc (mps and mtop for the mosix multicomputer) uses NR_TASKS.
> > However I couldn't find it in the include files for the 2.4.4 kernel.
> > It looks in linux/tasks.h for 
> > #define NR_TASKS
> > 
> > For the time being I defined it to be 1024 (hoping thats large and safe) but
> > whats the deal with NR_TASKS in 2.4.4 ? 
> > Or its the case that I have corrupted kernel sources. ;-)
> 
> NR_TASKS was removed in the 2.3 series. In 2.4 there's no longer a static
> limit. The number of tasks is only limited by available memory nowadays.
> Looks like mosix isn't ready for 2.4 yet.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel.

Actually, on www.mosix.org, there is a new version of mosix (the 1.0.x
series) that works just fine with kernel 2.4.  I've been running it
for around a month now with only slight problems.

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