EPYC 144 core machine has issues with Cygwin PID wraparound

Cedric Blancher cedric.blancher@gmail.com
Thu Dec 19 16:20:25 GMT 2024


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

Ced
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