Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 22:07:12 +0000 From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of pty's Message-ID: <20031204220712.GC18124@users.munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20031204212836.GP91900@alt255.com> References: <20031204212836.GP91900@alt255.com>
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:28:36PM -0800, Justin Burke wrote: > Looks like my system is running out of free pty's. There are a bunch of > users on the system running screen, so we are using up a ton of the > ptys. > > How do I find out the limit of ptys on my system? (sysctl doesn't > seem to show anything relevant.) I believe you can increase the number of ptys by modifying /etc/ttys - from looking at my /etc/ttys file it looks as though once the ttyp* ttys are used up, the tty monniker changes to ttyq* etc... > How do I increase that value? The pseudo-pty value in the kernel config > has no assigned value (ie. we are using the default).... but what is the > default? Again I believe this is down to /etc/ttys. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/
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