From: Marcus Meissner <mm@ns.caldera.de>
To: war@starband.net (war), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can only login via ssh 1013 times.
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:36:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110112136.f9BLakI04545@ns.caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BC60B59.71F0367A@starband.net>
In article <3BC60B59.71F0367A@starband.net> you wrote:
> Before you read this, I just wanted to see how many times I could login.
> I would never need 1000+ users support, but others may need it.
> So I was just curious to see how many times I could login with ssh
> version 1.
> I put in 2048 for the number of ptys allowed for the kernel options,
> recompiled and installed.
> I made a little expect script which would log me in the next time
> I login and so on and so forth.
> After I logged in 1013? times or so it said "you are out of ptys..."
> Once again I have no need for this amount of users, but I was curious,
> how many simultaneous users can be logged on to a linux box at one time?
> I'll guess @ 1024 considering I had some xterm's open.
> Anyone?
You maximum of open files is too low.
Increase the value /proc/sys/fs/file-max (check current usage in file-nr).
Ciao, Marcus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-11 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-11 21:12 Can only login via ssh 1013 times war
2001-10-11 21:36 ` Marcus Meissner [this message]
2001-10-11 21:46 ` Dan Hollis
2001-10-11 23:59 ` Andreas Ferber
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