[SunHELP] I run out of ptys

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Wolfgang Engelien wrote:

| Dear all,
| 
| I run out of ptys on a 1Gb-RAM U2 with Sol7.
| When I understand the docu correctly, there
| is no hard limit on the number of ptys
| available. During the bootup memory space is
| allocated for the ptys (a few kb per pty),
| only dependent on the total amount of RAM
| the computer has. With one Gb I should not
| run in any of this. What's wrong with my
| understanding?

I *believe* the  default max number of ptys is 48. You can up this number,
though, by putting the following setting in /etc/system and rebooting:

pty_cnt=<number of ptys>

/dale