Comment 43 for bug 406397

Could upstart track an arbitrary number of forks? instead of limiting to 1 (expect fork) or 2 (expect daemon) could expect N be supported?

Also here is a bash script to exhaust the pid space if your system does not have ruby.

pass the pid upstart is waiting for as an argument like this exhaustPIDspace.sh 11920

#!/bin/bash

usleep 1 &
firstPID=$!
#first lets exhaust the space
while [ $! -ge $firstPID ]
do
    usleep 1 &
done

while [ $! -le $1 ]
do
    usleep 1 &
done