Dear sun-managers,
I received a lot of good answers about how to increase the number of
pseudo-devices to allow more connections with xdm, telnet, rlogin.
You can find the original request at the end of this mail and also two
of the mails I have received: the first one is from
Steve <steve_turgeon@ppc-191.putnaminv.com> and the second from
Scott Swoboda <scott.swoboda@edwardjones.com>. This two mails are good
summaries of all the answers.
Many thanks to:
David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk>
Ray Trzaska <rtrzaska@uk.mdis.com>
Daniel Lorenzini <lorenzd@gcm.com>
steve_turgeon@ppc-191.putnaminv.com
Trevor Paquette <TrevorPaquette@aec.ca>
Normand Ranger <rangern@CIRANO.UMontreal.CA>
John Benjamins <johnb@Soliton.COM>
Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>
bcjensen@midamerican.com
John R Worachek <jworache@uns-dv1.jcpenney.com>
Scott Swoboda <scott.swoboda@edwardjones.com>
David R. Steen <steen@rdcs.kodak.com>
My apologies if I missed any one who replied.
Christophe.
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Christophe DIARRA
Institut de Physique Nucleaire
91406 ORSAY Cedex
Tel: (16 1) 69 41 65 60
E-mail: diarra@ipno.in2p3.fr
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To create more devices in /dev/pts:
1) set pt_cnt and npty to the same value in /etc/system file.
Steve (steve_turgeon@ppc-191.putnaminv.com) says that I have to
set sadcnt and autopush too (his mail will follow the summary section):
Some people think that 256 is the max value of pt_cnt but I was able
to create 512 devices in /dev/pts by setting pt_cnt to 512. I think
I will reduce it to 128 a value suggested by many people.
2) reboot the system with 'boot -r' or create /reconfigure
('touch /reconfigure') before rebooting. BUT it is possible to create
more devices without rebooting: just run 'drvconfig -r /devices' and then
'devlinks' (see the mail of Scott Swoboda).
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MAIL from steve_turgeon@ppc-191.putnaminv.com
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This needs to go into /etc/system. This will give you 256 devices. sadcnt
must be 2x the devices. This can be changed to support whatever number of
devices you need.
You then need to boot -r or touch /reconfigure and reboot. Hope this helps
Steve
set pt_cnt=256
set npty=256
set sadcnt=512
set nautopush=256
MAIL from Scott Swoboda <scott.swoboda@edwardjones.com>
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when you reboot the system you have have a reconfigure file in /
or you need to do a boot -r from the console
Else try drvconfig -r /devices
then devlinks
this usually works on our systems
Original request
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Subject: Re: logins: how to create additional pseudo devices
Hello managers,
I have only 48 devices in the directory /dev/pts. How can I create more
devices ? The system is rejecting connections (xdm, telnet, rlogin) because
there are no more devices.
After adding the line 'set pt_cnt=512' in /etc/system and rebooted the
system the problem still appears after some hours.
The system is a SS1000E with 128 Mb running Solaris 2.4.
Thanks in advance.
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