Hello misc@
I recently ran out of ptys, so, I ran MAKEDEV and made about 900 of
them.
I understand that I will have to make a custom kernel now, in order to
use them. What I want to know is, does this line in the kernel config:
pseudo-device pty 16
does that number correspond with the *actual* number of ptys? Because,
when I ran /dev sh ./MAKEDEV pty1 (then pty2 then pty3), I was
surprised to find that I haad made 256 of them (so, I carried on until I
got to pty15 and now theres just over 900)
The machine will be in use by anything up to 30 people logged in at
once.
Is there anything else you would recommend retuning regarding increasing
resources?
I've already looked at login.conf and increased the default maxproc-max
up to 512 from the default (because with about 7 screens and similar
number of xterms, got the warning from sh - cannot fork).
Machine details:
cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 256KB L2
cache) 1 GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR
real mem = 519663616 (507484K)
avail mem = 466055168 (455132K)
using 4256 buffers containing 26087424 bytes (25476K) of memory
thanks
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John
