diff --git a/tune-profiles/throughput-performance/sysctl.ktune b/tune-profiles/throughput-performance/sysctl.ktune
index a19c621..8c3c439 100644
--- a/tune-profiles/throughput-performance/sysctl.ktune
+++ b/tune-profiles/throughput-performance/sysctl.ktune
@@ -17,3 +17,8 @@ kernel.sched_wakeup_granularity_ns = 15000000
 # swapping, so it's time to throttle writes until I/O can catch up.  Workloads
 # that mostly use file mappings may be able to use even higher values.
 vm.dirty_ratio = 40
+
+# PID allocation wrap value.  When the kernel's next PID value
+# reaches this value, it wraps back to a minimum PID value.
+# PIDs of value pid_max or larger are not allocated.
+kernel.pid_max = 131072