On 8/4/05, Jim Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Craig O'Keefe wrote: > > Is anyone aware of a limit to the number of telnet sessions UML can > > support. We are seeing our >60 never come up. Does anyone know of where > > this is configured? > > Each telnet-rlogin-ssh session requires a pseudo-tty master+slave, and a > 2.4.x kernel for desktop use will generally be configured with 64 pttys. > Try rebuilding your kernel with 128 or 256 pttys, depending on your ability > to support the resulting user activity. > > There's more than one ptty implementation and the more modern ones > can allocate arbitrarily many (subject to memory limits), so you may only > have to ensure that you have more than 64 /dev/pty?? - /dev/tty?? inodes > pre-created. Unless you're using the /dev/pts directory (filesystem type > "devpts"), in which inodes will be created and deleted as needed. The > whole can of worms is a little complicated. > > James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 > UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key) > Hi Jim,
Do you happen to know a place where this "can of worms" is documented? I've looked on the 'net but currently not found anything. Well, nothing that matches my current level of non-knowledge anyway! Cheers, Cliff ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
