From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 4:30:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercenary.vntech.com (mercenary.vntech.com [206.147.237.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F6314E26 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pezzy@vntech.com) Received: from localhost (pezzy@localhost) by mercenary.vntech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA28288; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 06:28:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from pezzy@vntech.com) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 06:28:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Patrick Walentiny To: Dean Hollister Cc: Greg Lewis , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: telnetd - out of terminals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, You shouldn't notice a large performance difference unless someone decides to use all of those terminals. I upped mine to 256, and all of them filled up with screen sessions. (crazy users =)) Patrick. On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Dean Hollister wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message