Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:16:14 +1000 (EST) | From | Warwick Mitchell <> | Subject | Re: Running out of Unix98 PTYs in 2.2.13pre14 |
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I'm also running Debian potato but am not seeing the same problems. I'm primarly in X though, using Eterms. When I close one, and reopen a new one I get the old PTY.
Warwick
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > I have noticed this exact problem as well, luckily I'm > only up to 81 on my router so far. :) > > Stephen > > On 14 Oct 1999, Jarno Paananen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > the problem is that the Unix98 PTY numbers don't seem to get > > reused. With a maximum of 256 configured in the kernel it > > takes 1-2 weeks to run out of PTYs. > > > > At the moment the situation is like this (the machine had to be > > booted yesterday because of this and now it seems we have to do > > it again before end of the week): > > > > crw------- 1 chery tty 136, 0 Oct 13 21:34 0 > > crw--w---- 1 pekangas tty 136, 1 Oct 13 23:59 1 > > crw------- 1 jpaana tty 136, 104 Oct 14 00:00 104 > > crwx------ 1 jpaana tty 136, 108 Oct 14 00:00 108 > > crw------- 1 jpaana tty 136, 3 Oct 13 23:59 3 > > crw------- 1 jpaana tty 136, 4 Oct 14 00:00 4 > > crw------- 1 chery tty 136, 43 Oct 13 23:59 43 > > crw------- 1 chery tty 136, 44 Oct 13 21:34 44 > > crw------- 1 jpaana tty 136, 5 Oct 13 23:59 5 > > crw------- 1 jpaana tty 136, 6 Oct 14 00:00 6 > > crw------- 1 jpaana tty 136, 75 Oct 14 00:00 75 > > crw------- 1 jpaana tty 136, 95 Oct 13 23:53 95 > > > > And this is all in /dev/pts. Lsof doesn't reveal any extra open > > PTYs. After number 255 is opened all programs complain about not > > getting a PTY. > > > > The kernel version is 2.2.13pre14 compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3. The > > same symptom appeared in 2.2.12, but possibly not in 2.2.10 (at > > least that kernel got an uptime of 62 days). > > > > Could this be a userland problem with something taking up PTYs, > > a glibc bug (using 2.1.2 from Debian Potato), or a genuine > > kernel problem? > > > > Any help is very welcome... > > > > // Jarno > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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