From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 19 10:49:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E549537B42C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:49:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA33685; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:48:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Buliwyf McGraw Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: maxusers References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 19 Apr 2001 19:48:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Buliwyf McGraw writes: > Hi, im recompiling the kernel of my server, because a need more pty's > I set maxusers var to 1024, when i do the config i get this: There is no relation between maxusers and the number of ptys available. In fact, there is practically no relation between maxusers and anything of interest in the kernel. I believe the only value affected by maxusers that can't be tuned at boot- or run-time is the maximum size of the process table. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message