Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:03:19 +0100 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to increase the max pty's on Freebsd 7.0? Message-ID: <33896E239BB44BB98FD2643D8FE5F58C@multiplay.co.uk> References: <A48E38AADF784030A7496551F1416A3B@multiplay.co.uk> <20090401205306.GO13393@hoeg.nl> <20090402052900.GL2351@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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0n Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:53:06PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
>You can increase the maximum amount of PTYs by editing a lot of source
>files on your system. There is some good news: in -CURRENT we switched
>to Unix98-style PTYs (/dev/pts/%u). Right now the maximum amount of PTYs
>is limited to 1000 (0 to 999).
Thanks for the confirmation I've managed to patch our local source tree
to increase this to 1024. Seems the last patch to raise to 512 has one
bug so fixed that while I was there.
If anyone wants the patch set shout.
Regards
Steve
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