From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 14 13:14:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06857 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06845 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA22057; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807142013.NAA22057@implode.root.com> To: Katerina cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: need help with maxusers In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:28:21 EDT." <35AB8725.7418B5C@voyager.net> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:13:55 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >This is probably a newbie question, but I'm a professor at a small >university trying to expose my students to UNIX, so be gentle :) > >I have 2.2.2 installed and running except I'm having trouble when too >many people (15) are attempting to telnet in at the same time. The box >gets slow and sluggish and then it just dies to the point where you >can't login from anywhere but the console. I tried to get some help on >DALnet where they mentioned changing maxusers and pty and then >recompiling the kernel but can someone give me some specific guidance? Are there any console messages? This sounds like you might be running out of swap space. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message