From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 10 11:21:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04332 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 11:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA04325 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 11:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA12433; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:21:18 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id UAA04599; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:05:50 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970810200549.QH56967@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:05:49 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: jonz@netrail.net (Jonathan A. Zdziarski) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Expanding Resources References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan A. Zdziarski on Aug 10, 1997 13:06:50 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (wrong mailinglist) As Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: > I'm attempting to grow the max amount of users from 15 to at least 30, but > my attempts are failing. I've increased the number of ttys, and changed > the number of logins allowed in sys/i386/conf/HOSTNAME, rebuilt and > installed, yet the infamous 'All network Ports in use' still appears after > 15 users hit the system. No such thing like a `number of allowed logins'. :) `maxusers' is a rough estimation for certain table sizes. You're probably running out of ptys. There are three things to note here: . the number configured into the kernel (pseudo-device pty) . the number of /dev entries (re-run MAKEDEV for more) . the entries in /etc/ttys -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)