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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:13:55 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Katerina <katerina@voyager.net>
Cc:        "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: need help with maxusers 
Message-ID:  <199807142013.NAA22057@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:28:21 EDT." <35AB8725.7418B5C@voyager.net> 

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>This is probably a newbie question, but I'm a professor at a small
>university trying to expose my students to UNIX, so be gentle :)
>
>I have 2.2.2 installed and running except I'm having trouble when too
>many people (15) are attempting to telnet in at the same time.  The box
>gets slow and sluggish and then it just dies to the point where you
>can't login from anywhere but the console.  I tried to get some help on
>DALnet where they mentioned changing maxusers and pty and then
>recompiling the kernel but can someone give me some specific guidance?

   Are there any console messages? This sounds like you might be running out
of swap space.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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