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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:18:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        Tom Wadlow <wadlow@tw.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with swap under 3.0-980524-SNAP
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980714101803.5923C-100000@bright.ny.otec.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95P.980713162308.8130A-100000@hotspur.tw.com>

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please look at /etc/login.conf

you are hitting limits on your login class.

-Alfred

On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tom Wadlow wrote:

> I'm just in the process of finalizing the setup of this system for my
> primary use (moving off Sun boxes for the first time in more than a
> decade, for whatever that's worth).  Got most things working, but then
> ran into a problem where I ran out of pseudo-ttys.   Looking through the
> FAQ, I figured out how to up them to the (documented) max of 64 in the
> kernel.  Did so.  Made more pseudo-ttys in /dev via MAKEDEV.  Rebooted.
> Everything seemed to work.
> 
> Ran a little script to start creating rxvts one per second to see how much
> stress I could put on the system.  I expected this to get up into the 50s
> or low 60s with the kernel mods.  Instead, it went up from 16 (the
> previous limit) to about 24, then started getting "Cannot fork" errors.


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