From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 19 14:41:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from barbera.system.pl (barbera.system.pl [195.205.185.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE8437B423 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:41:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from saper@localhost) by barbera.system.pl (SYSTEM Internet) id e8JLcma91517; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:38:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:38:48 +0200 From: Marcin Cieslak To: brian@got.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More than 64 PTYs ? Message-ID: <20000919233848.D75224@barbera.system.pl> Mail-Followup-To: brian@got.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000915134425.A60792@brian.sjc.got.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000915134425.A60792@brian.sjc.got.net>; from brian@brian.sjc.got.net on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 01:44:25PM -0700 Organization: SYSTEM Internet Provider - http://www.system.pl/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Weiss (brian@brian.sjc.got.net) napisał(a): > I've recently run into a problem on one of my systems where I have run out of > available PTYs. It is a multiuser system, but not a terribly large one. As far > as I can tell from reading available documentation the limit for PTYs, as > configured in the kernel, is 64. How could this be? I know there are tons of > systems out there with a great deal more users than mine. > > Any information is greatly appreciated. Have you created a proper amount of /dev/tty[p-sP-S]* devices under the /dev/ directory? However, dealing with more than 256 may be somewhat more difficult (/sys/kern/tty_pty.c). -- << Marcin Cieslak // saper@system.pl >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- SYSTEM Internet Provider http://www.system.pl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message