Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:03:20 -0800 (PST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: Antti Korpela <antti.korpela@devnet.fi> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 default pty/tty-limit (256) OFF! Message-ID: <20060121155821.Y73866@spirou.home> In-Reply-To: <49431.195.139.252.5.1137461466.squirrel@webmail.i13i.com> References: <43CC3C6B.4060703@devnet.fi> <49431.195.139.252.5.1137461466.squirrel@webmail.i13i.com>
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Hi Antti,
> I need patch to raise FreeBSD 6.0 default pty/tty-limit (256) UP or OFF.
> In shell-production usage, that limit is ridiculous, there must be stop to
> this and put PTY-limits off!
> I changed my servers operating systems moment ago from Linux to FreeBSD
> thinking that FreeBSD could be more better, but how this can be possible,
> that so important think like PTYs are limited to so low?? every UNIX has
> more ptys.
This is a long standing problem, as is evident from kern/25866 [1]
from 2001. A more recent report is standards/90896 [2], wich also
contains a patch.
I'd suggest you try the patch and provide feedback to the bug report.
$.02,
/Mikko
1) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/25866)
2) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=standards/90896
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