Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:39:12 -0800 From: Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel pty limit Message-ID: <20071115203912.GJ43532@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <473CABC3.6090604@daleco.biz> References: <20071115200215.GF43532@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <473CABC3.6090604@daleco.biz>
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--ukZ3tWq1IjZw6zEx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:27:47PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Christopher Cowart wrote: >> Hello, >> I went to open up a new shell to our login server (recently rebuilt from >> Debian to FreeBSD) and found problems allocating a new pty. With a >> 256-pty limit, I'm surprised more people haven't had this problem. With >> team of 8 SysAdmins, each leaving about 30 windows open in screen >> sessions, 256 starts feeling a bit claustrophobic.=20 >=20 > Hmm, 8 guys root on one boxen? Sounds like a "cushy" job! > Got an IP and a couple of partners I could play xtank with? >=20 > J/k, of course. :-D >> I found a questions thread from January 2006 and these PRs: >> standards/90896: not enough PTYs in the FreeBSD >> kern/25866: [patch] more than 256 ptys, up to 1302 ptys. >=20 > There was also discussion on hackers@ at the time[1], and a > mention from rwatson@ that a new tty_pts.c and support in libc > for this was added to HEAD then[2]; I haven't checked, but I'm > assuming it's still in the new 7 branch and will be a part > of 7.0 Real Soon Now(tm), if that's any comfort. There may > be patches available, there was some discussion. Also, if it > *IS* in 7.0, I guess you could holler for a MFC. I suppose that counts as Good News. Does this mean the change will be part of the increasingly anticipated 7.0 release? In the meantime,=20 I'll have to use /dev/bat to remind the team to close their windows. --=20 Chris Cowart Lead Systems Administrator Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley --ukZ3tWq1IjZw6zEx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iQIVAwUBRzyucCPHEDszU3zYAQLSrhAAhPMLf58LqAlIA6dp27gwTeCZUKlbj+wY xL52kfo1DHlwN2IPKk0vi4cILi+0LfFOruHqXWv52b8kFaRbLSyAQPLCgIbrePGp KbVuv1QwrPGdpDJgnUw/G6Bp+wzgHIrw6Y5s2sTwA6DywEwZvjwJBhvZk7NMUJB3 NracRAO4SHGRsPGyAIZ4rrBJAN6gNaMeKaAG4xvWghUEifglck3bZsK6yCwjv51G pPYpdjCNt9vYmMI5b9mbxSIBaFdKbJkl2IwC2J5fnlsNWp0bYvzaa51lUeRJWAud rfuVJbIQ2+aeEuW2Qn+z0NeCXcQfz7SbgXcInz0JzVRKbZzgJWrO/5s4EVKck4Dd QFjPuTixbvWkEpM4G2u4OBRrrTLuZk2BKA7+lKMKOUI3+Dwfr0ZLZeGUKciS4FbU gBnwCxpo1DgLJ8fqcN2BTGk3lQBiKGmKbBeg7m1fodmN7PkQjM/iH0X8vRCie9qg 10FKppc3sPpydcCj7EqzUdOEQvOn4aFyeArqyD7LpW9P50e7L54tyiXN1NEGRsEE QcX7jT6wJM/7zyqmWl+nQl+llTk80MzLE0UAFSTgFe6acOFiS3d+DhoyLti0BQ2W JbPt0Xw+QiTYbNprw980hpNQva8fUj9yHpu6bgnKyJ5298evlWT/mGA2/Ju3HyCj Suf0KgOIEhY= =xeww -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ukZ3tWq1IjZw6zEx--
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