From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 18 01:26:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7208616A41A for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:26:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gepu@iogyte.ro) Received: from iogyte.ro (mail.iogyte.ro [62.231.111.163]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B20FA13C44B for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:26:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gepu@iogyte.ro) Received: (qmail 45953 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Nov 2007 01:26:16 -0000 Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:26:16 +0200 From: Dan Epure To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071118012616.GF19354@iogyte.ro> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: Subject: pseudo terminals in 7.0 - pts implementation X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Dan Epure List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:26:28 -0000 Hi, 7.0-BETA3 still has issues regarding the pts implementation . problems found: 1. - GNU screen: starting a screen, opening a few windows and quiting screen leaves the allocated pseudo terminal in use. 100 screen user, using each one opening 10 windows will deplete the default of 1000 pseudo terminals leaving the system unusable. 2. - 'ls /dev/ptmx' creates an additional entry in /dev/pty/. when the number of entries equals kern.pts.max the system became unusable. this feature is very important for an access server. Please help me find/solve the problem. Regards, Gepu