Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:45:12 +0000 | From | Nuno Monteiro <> | Subject | something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 |
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Hi all,
I just took 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 for a spin, and there's definitely something funny about tty's. I left the computer unattended and had visitors over, among them small children who, apparently, decided I needed 350 aterm's open ;-). So, after they left I issued a 'killall -9 aterm' and fired up a new one, and here's something definitely interesting:
nuno@hobbes:~$ w 18:33:56 up 4:08, 157 users, load average: 0.03, 0.89, 1.51 USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT nuno :0 14:26 ?xdm? 3:55 0.95s gnome-session nuno pts/358 18:30 0.00s 0.10s 0.00s w
I know for a fact that I don't have 157 logged in users (well, there's only 45 processes running right now), and shouldn't pts' be recycled, and a lower number be assigned? The last kernel I ran was 2.6.3, and none of this happened.
My config is:
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=512
and this is a plain jane static /dev -- not devfs nor udev. Despite the supposedly 157 users logged in, /dev/pts only contains '358', which is the one allocated to this instance of aterm right now.
nuno@hobbes:~$ ls -l /dev/pts total 0 crw--w---- 1 nuno users 136, 102 Mar 1 18:41 358
In the mean time I'll fall back to 2.6.3.
Regards,
Nuno
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