Author: Nico Erfurth Date: To: Jim Knoble, Exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] What to do about non-monitonic process ids
Jim Knoble wrote: > Circa 2003-01-30 18:43:29 +0100 dixit Nico Erfurth:
>
> : And whoever came up with random PIDs should be shot and buried on a moon
> : far far away ;)
>
> Disagree. There's some argument that unpredictable PIDs (they're not
> really random, they're pseudorandom) might exhibit faster behavior on a
> heavily loaded host with long uptime where the PID space is fragmented.
You will find arguments for everything.
On a heavily loaded host, (pseudo-) random PIDs could even be a
problem,and the PID-space will never fragment that much, maybe if you
have thousands of long running processes, that will never stop once
started, but this isn't reality :)
