Re: How To Tell Windows To Use Lower Process-Ids

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Something is probably leaking process or thread handles
on this system. Normally process IDs shouldn't grow that
high.

I would check task manager for processes with an
abnormally high handle count.

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"Skywing [MVP]" wrote:

Not possible.

I use Sysinternals 'handle.exe' to monitor processes on some processing
systems (Windows 2000).
The monitored processes are 'perl.exe' scripts.

Now the problems seems to be that 'handle.exe' cannot dump processes with
PID > 70000.
For example if the PID of 'perl.exe' is 71342 then handle.exe dumps
wrong:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
perl.exe pid: 7520 \<unable to open process>

Now the question is, how can I tell windows to use a PID for a new
process that is lower? The only way I know is to reboot the system, and
start processing again, then the processes are assigned to lower PIDs,
but after a long while PIDs assigned to new processes grow up and run
over 70000.
I have tested logoff or RAM Resetters, but the result was negative.


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