title: maximum number of processes and maximum PID value
body: <p>Referring to this question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9361816/maximum-number-of-processes-in-linux">maximum-number-of-processes-in-linux</a></p>
  
  <p>I under stand that <strong>kernel.pid</strong>_max affects the maximum value for PID and <strong>max user processes</strong> in <strong>/etc/security/limits.conf</strong> file affects total number of processes for each user.</p>
  
  <p>so if this is the right information, if for example <strong>pid_max</strong> is 10 and <strong>max user process</strong> is 30609. I think that Kernel will limit no of processes to 10 because there is no more available PIDs.</p>
  
  <p>NOTE : the example is for understanding only</p>