From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 22 07:31:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA04829 for current-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 07:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.io.org (post.io.org [198.133.36.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA04805; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 07:31:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zap.io.org (taob@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by post.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA25048; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:28:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:29:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Gary Palmer cc: Paulo Menezes , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: out of ptys? In-Reply-To: <7092.835304345@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > > It does? Whoops. I think the limit is actually 256 now (can someone > confirm this?) No problems with 256 of 'em here, so the limit is at least that. I've seen somewhere around 170+ allocated here (logins + screen sessions) on a busy night with only one of the servers accepting logins. I'm not sure what is involved getting more than 256 tty pairs, since tty[pqrsPQRS][0-9a-v] only gives you 256 devices. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"