From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 12:59:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A29316A41F for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:59:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pho@holm.cc) Received: from relay02.pair.com (relay02.pair.com [209.68.5.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E463443D53 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:59:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pho@holm.cc) Received: (qmail 78011 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2005 12:59:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO peter.osted.lan) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 29 Sep 2005 12:59:20 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 80.161.118.233 Received: from peter.osted.lan (localhost.osted.lan [127.0.0.1]) by peter.osted.lan (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8TCxJnk007449 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:59:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pho@peter.osted.lan) Received: (from pho@localhost) by peter.osted.lan (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j8TCxJgZ007448 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:59:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pho) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:59:19 +0200 From: Peter Holm To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050929125919.GA7296@peter.osted.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Subject: Leaking ptys in GENERIC RELENG_6 from Sep 28 02:59 UTC X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:59:22 -0000 I have had time to look some more at the problem of leaking ptys. It seems as thou ptys becomes unavailable (Input/output error on access) and eventually you run out of free ptys. The problem is documented here: http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/ptys.html -- Peter Holm