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From: dave@safari.UUCP
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Subject: Re: MAXPID on the 7300/3b1
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Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 15:34:35 EDT
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> 	I noticed today while doing a ps that the PID numbers had gone as
> high as 13000, then dropped back down to 7000...
>
> ... Is this some kind of strange anomaly
> (yet another one! :->) unique to the 7300, or do I have a problem?

Perhaps it's really 37000:

MAXPID on the Unix PC is 30000 (see /usr/include/sys/param.h) after which
the PID's will "wrap around" to lower values again.  You can observe this
if you don't reboot or fsck the filesystem for about 30 days.