Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261436AbUKIHya (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 02:54:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261422AbUKIHyI (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 02:54:08 -0500 Received: from nova.rhapsodyk.net ([212.43.230.60]:61900 "EHLO nova.rhapsodyk.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261431AbUKIHxp (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 02:53:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20041108212747.33b6e14a.akpm@osdl.org> References: <9dda349204110611043e093bca@mail.gmail.com> <20041107024841.402c16ed.akpm@osdl.org> <20041108075934.GA4602@elte.hu> <20041107234225.02c2f9b6.akpm@osdl.org> <20041108224259.GA14506@kroah.com> <20041108212747.33b6e14a.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <792238A4-3224-11D9-9F1E-000D934362B4@pas-tres.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, Andries Brouwer , Alan Cox , diffie@blazebox.homeip.net, Greg KH , diffie@gmail.com From: Olivier Poitrey Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 08:53:41 +0100 To: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 504 Lines: 15 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. -- Olivier Poitrey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/