From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 1 09:00:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15420 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:00:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smarter.than.nu (lal-99-91.Reshall.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.99.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15415 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:00:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smarter.than.nu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA03050; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:00:20 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: Greg Lehey cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the pty limit In-Reply-To: <19990201183647.X8473@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 31 January 1999 at 22:24:45 -0800, Brian W. Buchanan wrote: > > I like to open lots of xterms, but I've found that once I have 16 ptys in > > use, I can't spawn any more. I've rebuilt my kernel with: > > > > pseudo-device pty 32 > > > > And I know I have enough pty device entries in /dev, but I still run into > > the 16-pty limit. > > How do you know you're running into the 16 pty limit? What's the > message? What are the names of your second group of 16 ptys? Further testing has shown this to be a kvt bug. There's still some problem with man reporting 'cannot fork', but it's not easily reproduceable. -- Brian Buchanan brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org daemon(n): 1. an attendant power or spirit : GENIUS 2. the cute little mascot of the FreeBSD operating system To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message