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.
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?
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.
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.
The latter appears to have been kicking around since FreeBSD 4.3 (still
open).
What can I do to help get that limit raised? Does anyone have a patch
against 6.2? If not, would anyone be interested in writing one?
Thanks for any help,
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
--
Break into jail and claim police brutality.
[1]
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/hackers/2006-01/msg00177.html
[2]
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/hackers/2006-01/msg00306.html
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