2.6.5 pts problem

2.6.5 pts problem

[Markus Hästbacka]

Hi list,
I noticed something strange this day last week:
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
midian   :0       -                Thu20   ?xdm?   1:32m  2.98s
/usr/bin/gnome-session
midian   pts/0    :0.0             Thu20    1:49  18.91s 18.91s ssh midi
midian   pts/51   :0:S.0           Thu22    1:33   6.43s  6.43s irssi
midian   pts/92   :0.0             19:08   14:19   2.14s  2.14s ncftp
ftp.fi.netbsd.org
midian   pts/93   :0.0             19:24    0.00s  0.00s  0.00s w
             ^^
As you see, pts is just growing, not using the old used numbers.

        Markus

Re: 2.6.5 pts problem

[Joshua Kwan]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:25:40 +0300, Markus Hästbacka wrote:
> midian   pts/93   :0.0             19:24    0.00s  0.00s  0.00s w
>              ^^
> As you see, pts is just growing, not using the old used numbers.

The implementation was changed intentionally to make it that way. The
numbers will only be recycled once we go over the max number of
psuedoterminals, I think..

-- 
Joshua Kwan

Re: 2.6.5 pts problem

[Albert Cahalan]

>> As you see, pts is just growing, not using the old used numbers.
>
> The implementation was changed intentionally to make
> it that way. The numbers will only be recycled once we
> go over the max number of psuedoterminals, I think..

You can also recycle the numbers by rebooting.
That's what I do. :-/

(I can't be spending 10% of my disk on a giant wtmp
file. Also, I use the tty names for xterm titles now.
If they get too big, the GNOME taskbar button titles
get truncated.)

Re: 2.6.5 pts problem

[Jorge Bernal (Koke)]

On Lunes, 19 de Abril de 2004 07:52, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> >> As you see, pts is just growing, not using the old used numbers.
> >
> > The implementation was changed intentionally to make
> > it that way. The numbers will only be recycled once we
> > go over the max number of psuedoterminals, I think..
>
> You can also recycle the numbers by rebooting.
> That's what I do. :-/
>

and what about making that configurable.

I mean putting a config option to select between "recyclable" and 
"non-recyclable" pts numbers. Or maybe via /proc

> (I can't be spending 10% of my disk on a giant wtmp
> file. Also, I use the tty names for xterm titles now.
> If they get too big, the GNOME taskbar button titles
> get truncated.)
>
>
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