From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, olivier@pas-tres.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, diffie@blazebox.homeip.net,
greg@kroah.com, diffie@gmail.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm3
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 01:39:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041109013913.021d63d6.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041109103733.GA15065@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 08:53 +0100, Olivier Poitrey wrote:
> > > On 9 nov. 04, at 06:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > > [...] Is there a requirement to support more than 256 legacy ptys?
> > >
> > > Yes it is. For big vserver hosting systems for instance, running like
> > > 100 vservers per node you can easily hit this limit.
> >
> > but do you really need the legacy pty's for that instead of the
> > "modern" ones ?
>
> probably not, but if the fix is easy then there's no reason not to do
> it.
We'd have to cook up a new naming scheme for them. And hotplug scripts
to create the device nodes. Except hotplug probably isn't running correctly
at that time. My RH system here only comes with 256 /dev/pty* device nodes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-09 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-06 19:04 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Paul Blazejowski
2004-11-07 10:48 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-11-07 17:24 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Paul Blazejowski
2004-11-08 7:59 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-08 7:42 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-11-08 22:42 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Greg KH
2004-11-09 5:27 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-11-09 7:14 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Greg KH
2004-11-09 8:05 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Greg KH
2004-11-09 8:15 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-11-09 8:27 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Greg KH
2004-11-09 12:11 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Tejun Heo
2004-11-09 7:53 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Olivier Poitrey
2004-11-09 8:22 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-09 9:25 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Olivier Poitrey
2004-11-09 10:37 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-09 9:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-09 10:44 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-09 10:33 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andries Brouwer
2004-11-11 1:52 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 H. Peter Anvin
2004-11-09 18:24 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Paul Blazejowski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-08 12:34 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Karsten Wiese
2004-11-08 21:40 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Karsten Wiese
2004-11-08 22:25 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 linux-os
2004-11-08 23:30 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Chris Wright
[not found] <20041105001328.3ba97e08.akpm@osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <418B5C70.7090206@kolivas.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-11-05 11:53 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 12:16 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Con Kolivas
2004-11-05 12:23 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 8:13 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-11-05 9:41 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Lorenzo Allegrucci
2004-11-05 10:17 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-11-05 10:48 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 12:36 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Lorenzo Allegrucci
2004-11-05 10:22 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-05 10:38 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 11:09 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-05 11:17 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 11:24 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-05 11:43 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 12:15 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-05 12:22 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 12:57 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-11-05 13:02 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 17:47 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-11-05 11:20 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Russell King
2004-11-05 11:30 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Andi Kleen
2004-11-05 10:17 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Ingo Molnar
2004-11-05 15:54 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Michael Baehr
2004-11-05 10:56 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Con Kolivas
2004-11-05 18:07 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-11-05 18:07 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Adam Heath
2004-11-06 7:16 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Pasi Savolainen
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