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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.winc.com!usenet From: "Matthew A. Gessner" <mgessner@aristar.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Terminal Question Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 09:06:40 -0400 Organization: Aristar, Inc. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3205F1E0.41C67EA6@aristar.com> References: <31FC4BFD.3B7C@shrike.depaul.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip125.winc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) 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. > > Alex > > alitvak@shrike.depaul.edu My guess would be that you need to increase the maxusers variable in your kernel configuration file. There is a formula for calculating the maxusers you need based on various system services and system usage - I just looked and it's in the online handbook html pages, look under Mandatory Keywords (5.3.1) under The Configuration File under Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel. Matt -- Matthew Gessner <mgessner@aristar.com> Computer Scientist Aristar, Inc. 302 N. Cleveland-Massillon Rd. Akron, OH 44333 (330) 668-2267 (330) 668-2961 FAX