Hi Andrius,

mer...@debian.org, on 2020-06-16 19:46:00 +0300:
> Hi Étienne,
> 
> On 2020-06-16 19:41, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> > As a side note, I remarked that t_coffee dislikes it when its
> > PID is greater than 260000:
> >
> >     $ t_coffee -version
> >     PROGRAM: T-COFFEE Version_13.41.0.28bdc39 (2019-11-30 10:21:53 - 
> > Revision 5d5a1c1 - Build 465)
> >     
> >     --ERROR: MAX_N_PID exceded -- Recompile changing the value of MAX_N_PID 
> > (current: 260000 Requested: 371481)
> >
> > The version check loops in memory allocation, filling memory
> > until I SIGUSR1 it away, or the kernel unleashes the OOM reaper.
> > It looks like a bug if Debian 11 needs to be able to run
> > smoothly while allowing PIDs greater than 32768.
> 
> Great catch - could you please file a bug report on t_coffee? I admit I
> don't know what is the maximum PID value one could expect.

I'm on it.  I'm a bit unsure of the maximum possible, but having
left my machine compute rosetta jobs for more than 80
consecutive days, all I can say is that the limit is well over
the million.

Cheers,  :)
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