PROCFS limited to 256 entries!?

From: Brian K. Holman <bkh_at_lib1.byu.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 22:35:04 -0700 (MST)

I have created a program that reads the PROCFS and uses that information
to build a process tree. It then kills the leaf nodes that have been idle
for a certain amount of time.

However, I have run into a snag. The /proc directory will only report 256
entries [254 processes, (.), (..)]. Even if I have 500 active processes on
the system, the maximum I can see in /proc is 256 using ls or the readdir
system call.

I tried to find a kernel paramter that I could change but without any
success. Can anyone shed any light on this problem?

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