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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Terminal Question Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 07:41:17 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 30 Message-ID: <31FCCD8D.2C38@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31FC4BFD.3B7C@shrike.depaul.edu> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (Win16; I) Alexander Litvak wrote: > > -- > *** DePaul Online - A Service Provided by: > *** The Information Technology division of > *** DePaul University > I have a question for BSD gurus. Recently I recompiled kernel to > support 64 ptty devices. Unfortunately after I have 38 connections > simultaneously I get 'cannot fork' message on the execution of any > program on the 39th telnet session. Does it mean that system can't > support more than 38 remote connected users at the same time. Or may be > because I logged in as myself all of the times I have used allowed > number of processes to the max. > Please give me a clue. Thank you in advance. > Check your MAXUSERS setting in your kernel configuration file. This is not an absolute statement of maximum allowed users, but it does control the number of simultaneous processes the system will support. The GENERIC kernel is set to 10 users; you'll want to up that considerably. Calculations for max number of processes are given in the Handbook. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |