Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 15:11:29 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Number of ptys in 205 - Any limits ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950824150858.5292G-100000@aries> In-Reply-To: <199508232114.XAA19859@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, J Wunsch wrote:
>
> I think the number of available letter to name them is the biggest
> restriction. It's not as easy to add more letters to MAKEDEV, since
> most programs have a hardcoded idea which letters to use for naming
> ptys. :(
One of best.com's shell servers reported 129 users on it. I
wonder how they did it. 128 dialup users and 1 console user? :)
<rdy> 3:52PM up 2 days, 5:34, 129 users, load averages: 7.47, 5.60, 6.28
<rdy> [shell1]-p8:2> uname -a
<rdy> FreeBSD shell1.best.com 2.2-BEST FreeBSD 2.2-BEST #1: Mon Jul 31 15:52:47 PDT
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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