> > I haven't seen any serious objections, I've even changed deadprocs to
> > an SLIST.
> 
> What's the worst case scenario for the size of the list(s) in memory?

If you mean the 'deadprocs' list, it depends on whether the reaper
ever blocks (or on a MP system how fast the other cpus are creating
dead processes).  All I've done is change that list from FIFO to LIFO,
in practise I don't suppose it often has more than one member.  It is
never searched.

I removed the lists assoctiated with the pidhash and pgrphash, either
or which could, in the worst case, have been a single list containing
all the processes (pgrps).

The freelist I use for pids consumes no additional memory and is never
traversed.

The memory cost of the code is 2 pointers per entry in the pid_table
- whose size depends on the maximum number of concurrent processes.
(the size will increase automatically, but never decrease).

2 pointers have beed removed from struct pgrp, and 1 from struct proc.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk