hi, Is there any limit on total number of processes in the system,means if kernel calculates any such limit depending upon no of pages(RAM) in system, if yes,then how would it works. as it guess the size os stack for every process like that, thanks Prasanna V. Wakhare __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/