Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 11:31:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Craig Huckabee <huck@mispwoso.nosc.mil> To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Cc: paulo@centauro.isr.uc.pt, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: out of ptys? Message-ID: <199606221531.LAA19632@mispwoso.nosc.mil> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960622102426.29067B-100000@zap.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at Jun 22, 96 10:29:14 am
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> 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.
I'm running 256 here as well, and we've used most of them all at once
(during some stress testing). There's also this note in /dev/MAKEDEV:
[in the section for pty creation....]
# This still leaves [tuTU].
Dunno if that means they are also available giving a max of 384.
--Craig
> --
> 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"
>
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