Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 00:05:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: taob@nbc.netcom.ca, leec@adam.adonai.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Had the shotgun out and pointed at my -current/SMP box... Message-ID: <199801250005.RAA12408@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <12440.885627653@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 23, 98 11:40:53 pm
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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 :-)] I have a cloning pty driver and cloning bfs and tun and vnode drivers as well. It requires some semantic changes to the devfs that PHK and Julian have opposed, so far. Specifically, I have to be able to open a directory and treat it as a device, and then I need clone ioctl()'s (this is a better approach than using an alternate vp passback, as someone suggested). It also requires switching over to devfs, which you have opposed, so, far. So, when we switching -current to solely devfs? 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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