Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 23:44:44 -0800 (PST) From: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: cannot get more than 32 PTYs in 4.4-RELEASE Message-ID: <20020304233607.E3757-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>
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In my kernel, I have: maxusers 128 pseudo-device pty 128 In my /dev directory, I have used `sh MAKEDEV` to make all 256 /dev/pty files. They are all there, and all have correct major/minor numbers. I know I won't be using all 256 of them, but I just made them all anyway. In /etc/ptys, I didn't change anything, because all 256 pty entries are ALREADY in there: # Pseudo Terminals ttyp0 none network ttyp1 none network ... ttySu none network ttySv none network So those are all there. I have used `sysctl -a | grep maxuser` to verify that maxusers is indeed 128. BUT - if I log on via ssh and start screen, and start 31 new screen windows, then nobody else can log on to the system - I cannot create any more screen windows AND nobody else can ssh in - the machine has run out of ptys. I use `fstat` to inquire, and I am maxed out at exactly 32 ptys. SO THE question is, why am I stuck at 32 ptys ? I have done it all - everything that is in any doc or news post, and everything I was told to do here and on -hackers, and yet I am still stuck at 32 !!! Please tell me the secret lore for getting more than 32 ptys in 4.4-RELEASE. thanks, PT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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