From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 9 15:59:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (verlaine.noos.net [212.198.2.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A0837B403 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:59:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 34806752 invoked by uid 0); 9 Oct 2001 22:59:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.231.187]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.73 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Oct 2001 22:59:44 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f99Mxgk44546; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:59:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200110092259.f99Mxgk44546@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: ttys In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011009144916.03630d50@pop.schulte.org> To: Christopher Schulte Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:59:41 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Steve Dobbs , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net From: Cyrille Lefevre Organization: ACME X-Face: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94c (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Schulte wrote: > At 12:47 PM 10/9/2001 -0700, Steve Dobbs wrote: > >Is there a maximum number of tty's that an be open on a FreeBSD box? I > >have done some searching and haven't found much on this topic. Is there a > >way of increasing the number of ttys that can be opened at once? > > > 256 is the max > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ADD-PTY > > I've seen patches to support more, but out of the box you can do 256. don't know if it will be commited one day ? http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25866 Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message