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.TP
MAXUPROBES
Maximum number of concurrently armed user-space probes (uprobes), default
-100 times the number of user-space probe points named in the script. This
-pool is large because individual uprobe objects are allocated for each
-process for each script-level probe.
+somewhat larger than the number of user-space probe points named in the script.
+This pool needs to be potentialy large because individual uprobe objects (about
+64 bytes each) are allocated for each process for each matching script-level probe.
.PP
With scripts that contain probes on any interrupt path, it is possible that