From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 3 15:11:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00478 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:11:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from under.suspicion.org ([216.27.37.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00434 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:11:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ventrex@UNDER.suspicion.org) Received: from UNDER.SUSPICION.ORG (root@UNDER.SUSPICION.ORG [216.27.37.14]) by under.suspicion.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA15369 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 18:11:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ventrex@UNDER.suspicion.org) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 18:11:16 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Stromberg X-Sender: ventrex@under.suspicion.org To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hitting my pty limit of 256 with only 46 open? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. ======================================================================== Thomas Stromberg | smtp -> thomas@stromberg.org System Administrator, RTC Inc. | http -> thomas.stromberg.org (919) 380-9771 ext. 3210 : talk -> ventrex@stromberg.org "the more we know, the less we are" . irc -> ventrex@EFnet ======================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message