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Re: How LINUX OS picks the PID

 
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skt_skt
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тАО06-04-2009 03:13 AM

тАО06-04-2009 03:13 AM

How LINUX OS picks the PID

RHEL AS

I happened to trace a Oracleprocess which is suppose to be terminating at a particular time. I am not sure if a new process can come up with same PID of an "old process"
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Steven E. Protter
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тАО06-04-2009 04:04 AM

тАО06-04-2009 04:04 AM

Re: How LINUX OS picks the PID

Shalom,

The OS maintains a table, and hands out PID sequentially.

It is very unlikely for the new process to pick up the same PID as the old.

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Ivan Ferreira
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тАО06-04-2009 05:17 AM

тАО06-04-2009 05:17 AM

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Re: How LINUX OS picks the PID

The pid assignment process wraps at 32767.

$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
32768

Next time around, the kernel skips over any
pids that are still in use from the last round of assignment.
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Dennis Handly
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тАО06-06-2009 03:14 AM

тАО06-06-2009 03:14 AM

Re: How LINUX OS picks the PID

Your HP-UX thread on this issue:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1345148
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