Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> writes:

> It is not very nice when you start getting lots of long running
> processes sprinkled all through the pid space (it means way too many
> linear scans through the process table).  There, a "random" pid
> selection algorithm (well implemented, which probably means a bit
> map of used/free pids) might just perform considerably better.

Why not just use the proc address as pid?

/Johan