Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:37:33 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Olivier Poitrey <olivier@pas-tres.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, diffie@blazebox.homeip.net,
       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, diffie@gmail.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm3
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* 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
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