Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:28:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the pty limit Message-ID: <19990202092833.L71384@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902010843050.480-100000@smarter.than.nu>; from Brian W. Buchanan on Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 09:00:20AM -0800 References: <19990201183647.X8473@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902010843050.480-100000@smarter.than.nu>
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On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 9:00:20 -0800, Brian W. Buchanan wrote: > 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. No, the ``cannot fork'' is the real bug. You've got your process limit set too low. Check out login.conf(5). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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