From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 15 13:47:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BA437B422 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8FKl9D10129; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:47:09 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: brian@got.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More than 64 PTYs ? Message-ID: <20000915134709.M12231@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000915134425.A60792@brian.sjc.got.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000915134425.A60792@brian.sjc.got.net>; from brian@brian.sjc.got.net on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 01:44:25PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Brian Weiss [000915 13:43] wrote: > I've recently run into a problem on one of my systems where I have run out of > available PTYs. It is a multiuser system, but not a terribly large one. As far > as I can tell from reading available documentation the limit for PTYs, as > configured in the kernel, is 64. How could this be? I know there are tons of > systems out there with a great deal more users than mine. > > Any information is greatly appreciated. You're expected to tune your machines if you're going to have "tons of users" -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message