Dan Foster wrote:

> You don't need to have it as array[pid]; it would be far more memory
> efficient to maintain it as a singly or doubly-linked list, which isn't
> hard or slow to traverse, especially if structured via binary tree insert,
> traversal, or delete functions.
>
> -Dan

Indeed. Sounds like the orignal design (assuming 30,000 at most, and
using fix-sized arrary) is bad.

Vince Clarke wrote:
> The question I have is can the AIX kernel be configured so that it
> will generate pids only in the range 1 to 30000 and therefore function
> in a similar way to most other Unix systems. I have aked a number of
> people about this even some from IBM and have not yet had a
> satisfactory answer. I'm hoping someone here can provide a definitive
> answer.

The answer is no.