[OpenAFS-devel] [LKML] Re: In-kernel Authentication Tokens (PAGs)

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 09:24:02 -0500 "Neulinger, Nathan" 
<nneul@umr.edu> wrote:

> What is this 1 pag per second thing... I have heard it numerous times in
> the past but never saw any concrete info about it.

Unless you are UID 0 (I think), PAG ID allocation is throttled to a 
system-wide maximum rate of one ID per second.  This is done to prevent 
exhaustion of a finite resource.