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From: "mike ndabarasa" <freebsd@nur.ac.rw>
Subject: Re: how to allow more than 100 simultaneous users
To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>,
	"mike ndabarasa" <freebsd@nur.ac.rw>
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thank you Erik!
i just that way and this afternoon i was amazed to see more
than 72 users connected users.


On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:49:17 +0100
 Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:25:38AM +0000, mike ndabarasa
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:33:01 +0100
> >  Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:02:34AM +0000, mike
> ndabarasa
> > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > hello list members,
> > > > i have a small server for students who need to do
> their
> > > > hands on and i am having problems with the number
> of
> > > > simultaneour connections.
> > > > 
> > > > they won't go beyond 32 while i need at least a
> 100!
> > > > 
> > > > i modified 
> > > >  max 256 
> > > >    and
> > > >  pseudo-device pty 256
> > > > 
> > > > but can't still go beyond 32 connections.
> > > > 
> > > > who can help ?
> > > 
> > > Did you also create the new ptys or did you just
> enable
> > > them in the kernel?
> > > To create them do the following:
> > > 
> > > cd /dev
> > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty0
> > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty1
> > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty2
> > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty3
> > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty4
> > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty5
> > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty6
> > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty7
> > > 
> > > 
> > > After that you should have 256 ptys available.
> > > (Each of those invocations create 32 ptys in /dev)
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > i did only enable!
> > didn't do the sh ./MAKEDEV ptyx
> > 
> > before i do it i can see i have from ptyp0 to ptypv.
> > 
> > will i say 
> > 
> > sh ./MAKEDEV ptypw
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > sh ./MAKEDEV ptypz
> > 
> > 
> > what comes after ptypz ?
> 
> You should invoke MAKEDEV exactly as I showed above.
> 
> Those commands will create ptyXY where X is one of
> pqrsPQRS
> and Y is one of 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv
> All in all 8 sets of 32 ptys each for a total of 256
> ptys.
> 
> 
> -- 
> <Insert your favourite quote here.>
> Erik Trulsson
> ertr1013@student.uu.se
> 

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