Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Date | 02 Mar 2004 14:04:44 -0500 |
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> As RBJ said, ptys are now recycled in pid-like fashion, > which means numbers won't be reused until wraparound > happens. This is good for security/fault tolerance, > at least to some minor degree.
Ouch. It's bad for display and bad for typing. What is easier to type?
ps -t pts/6 ps -t pts/1014962
(and yes, I really type these -- I don't have a third hand to operate the mouse simultaneously)
What looks better?
UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD albert 3339 2114 0 771 1684 0 Feb26 pts/6 00:00:00 bash albert 3149 2514 0 771 1684 0 Feb26 pts/1004922 00:00:00 bash albert 3835 2164 0 771 1684 0 Feb26 pts/8 00:00:00 bash albert 4136 3114 0 771 1684 0 Feb26 pts/1013866 00:00:00 bash albert 4739 2119 0 771 1684 0 Feb26 pts/9 00:00:00 bash
Better way:
Have a soft limit, initially set at 99. When 2/3 of the ptys are in use, increase the soft limit to 999, then to 9999, 99999, and finally to 999999.
This way, a plain 1-person desktop user would never have a pty name longer than pts/99 and an insanely busy server could go as high as needed.
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