From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262244AbUCEITy (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:19:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262250AbUCEITy (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:19:54 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:30731 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262244AbUCEITw (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:19:52 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:19:44 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Joshua Kwan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Weird utmp (?) problem on 2.6.4-rc1-mm{1,2} Message-ID: <20040305081944.GP655@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Joshua Kwan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:44:33PM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote: > I noticed that 2.6.4-rc1-mm[12] are not recycling ptys: > 23:43:39 up 16:37, 5 users, load average: 0.39, 0.30, 0.21 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT > joshk tty1 - 21:45 1:58m 1:57 0.00s /bin/sh /usr/bi > joshk pts/22 :0.0 21:45 3:02 1.12s 1.12s ssh influx > joshk pts/23 :0.0 21:45 0.00s 0.02s 0.00s w > joshk pts/28 :0.0 22:25 1:16m 0.02s 0.02s -bash > When I close a terminal, and open another, the pts/ should be reused, > shouldn't it? The behavior was changed so that pty's aren't immediately recycled. -- wli