Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:49:17 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: "mike ndabarasa" <freebsd@nur.ac.rw> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: how to allow more than 100 simultaneous users Message-ID: <20020318124916.B11533@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <web-2930929@pumba.nur.ac.rw>; from freebsd@nur.ac.rw on Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:25:38AM %2B0000 References: <20020318113301.A11533@student.uu.se> <web-2930929@pumba.nur.ac.rw>
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:25:38AM +0000, mike ndabarasa wrote: > > > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:33:01 +0100 > Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:02:34AM +0000, mike ndabarasa > > wrote: > > > > > > hello list members, > > > i have a small server for students who need to do their > > > hands on and i am having problems with the number of > > > simultaneour connections. > > > > > > they won't go beyond 32 while i need at least a 100! > > > > > > i modified > > > max 256 > > > and > > > pseudo-device pty 256 > > > > > > but can't still go beyond 32 connections. > > > > > > who can help ? > > > > Did you also create the new ptys or did you just enable > > them in the kernel? > > To create them do the following: > > > > cd /dev > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty0 > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty1 > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty2 > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty3 > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty4 > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty5 > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty6 > > sh ./MAKEDEV pty7 > > > > > > After that you should have 256 ptys available. > > (Each of those invocations create 32 ptys in /dev) > > > > > i did only enable! > didn't do the sh ./MAKEDEV ptyx > > before i do it i can see i have from ptyp0 to ptypv. > > will i say > > sh ./MAKEDEV ptypw > . > . > . > sh ./MAKEDEV ptypz > > > what comes after ptypz ? You should invoke MAKEDEV exactly as I showed above. Those commands will create ptyXY where X is one of pqrsPQRS and Y is one of 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv All in all 8 sets of 32 ptys each for a total of 256 ptys. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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