Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:40:53 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca> Cc: "Lee Crites (AEI)" <leec@adam.adonai.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Had the shotgun out and pointed at my -current/SMP box... Message-ID: <12440.885627653@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:34:26 EST." <Pine.GSO.3.95.980124003235.15866H-100000@tor-adm1>
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> that could comfortably handle ~100 users. With today's CPU's and the > price of memory, it's too bad we can only get 256 pty's per machine. > I'll bet a nice Pentium II system could handle 500 shell users. Yeah, if only someone (sigh) would take up that cloning PTY driver project, such arbitrary limits would be unnecessary. [he gazes wistfully off into the distance :-)] Jordan
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