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On 2024-12-19 16:42, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Dec 19 17:20, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
>> Good afternoon!
>>
>> We have a new AMD EPYC machine with 144 cores (upgraded from 8 core
>> machine) running Windows 10 Enterprise, with a mixture of native Win32
>> apps+Cygwin.
>> But the Cygwin apps cause trouble, as PID numbers get re-used too
>> fast. We churn through ~~6912000 child processes EVERY HOUR, which now
>> causes major problems with PID wraparounds in scripts and perl.
>>
>> 1. How can I increase the value at which pid-wraparound will happen?
>> 2. How can I test for Cygwins max PID value? Cygwin does not have
>> /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
> 
> We can't make the pid algorithm variable in terms of the max pid, so
> I changed the maximum PID to the maximum pid on Linux, i.e., 4194304.
> 
> Please check out the next test release cygwin 3.6.0-0.294.g363357c023ce.

Run the attached to check your upgrade:

$ gcc -o cyg_max_pid{,.c} && ./cyg_max_pid
max pid 65536

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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