Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 18:11:16 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Stromberg <ventrex.freebsd@UNDER.suspicion.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hitting my pty limit of 256 with only 46 open? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811031804520.15264-100000@under.suspicion.org>
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I've got a private shellbox/workstation running 3.0-CURRENT. I'm not sure
why, but I keep hitting a pty limit, where no one can login/make new
screen sessions, etc. I've changed all the settings I know of to allow for
256 ptys to be open, but with no result.
Whenever I hit this limit, lsof reports I only have 44-46 of them in use:
[root(98NOV)]> lsof -n|grep -c pty
45
System:
FreeBSD under.suspicion.org 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Nov 2
12:36:47 EST 1998
ventrex@under.suspicion.org:/vol/1/usr/src/sys/compile/blowntoad i386
But Here is the applicable kernel settings:
maxusers 128
options NMBCLUSTERS=8192
pseudo-device pty 256
/dev also has entries for pty:
[ventrex(98NOV)]> ls /dev/pty*|wc
256 256 2816
[ventrex(98NOV)]> ls /dev/tty*|wc
273 273 3009
I'm presuming that there is something I'm missing, but I havent yet been
able to figure it out. Any pointers/help would be much appreciated.
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