From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 2: 8:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D143153AF for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 02:07:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03403; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:07:16 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:07:15 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: Greg Lewis Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: telnetd - out of terminals In-Reply-To: <199907140903.SAA54857@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: X-no-archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Greg Lewis wrote: > ttypb = 12 network ttys. Add 4 virtual consoles and we get 16 -- the magic > number for the number of pty devices compiled into the GENERIC kernel. > > Sounds like you need to alter your kernel config and rebuild it, the > relevant line is: > > pseudo-device pty 16 > > You might want to increase it to 64, say. Thanks, I'll try it now. Will that have any noticeable effect on system load/performance? Regards, d. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message