Based on the responses, Solaris 8 and above dynamically grow the number of pts devices without changing /etc/system or rebooting. Exactly what criteria is used to "decide to grow" and "how much to grow by" still seems to be a mystery. In my case, device /dev/pts/32 being used occurred around the time that pts/65-pts/128 appeared. Some testing on a desktop with 32 pts devices showed that 32 MORE appeared as soon as pts/16 was assigned so I'm speculating that at 50% utilization, more pts devices will appear, and (based on a sample space of 2), the number created will equal the number already present :-) Thanks to all who responded Ric > > One of my solaris 8 systems (Generic_117350-06) created additional > pts devices (65 thru 128) yesterday around 11:01 am for no reason I > can see. There was nothing in /var/adm/messages or /var/log/anything > nor was lastcomm or last particularly interesting. No > software changes > have been made on this system since August, and it was last rebooted > about a month ago due to a power outage. > > Does anyone know why the system might decide to create extra ptys > without a reconfigure reboot or an on-the-fly drvconfig? > > Thanks, > Ric Anderson (ric@opus1.com) -- _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Sat Dec 18 10:46:09 2004
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