Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm3

Ingo Molnar
2004-11-09T09:41:39Z

* 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.

Ingo