How to increase the max pty's on Freebsd 7.0?

[Steven Hartland]

Yep that's what I came up with after looking though the code thanks
for the link though, always good to get confirmation that I didn't
miss something.

    Regards
    Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Baldwin" <jhb at freebsd.org>


> On Wednesday 01 April 2009 1:55:12 pm Steven Hartland wrote:
>> How can I increase the maximum number or ptys available on FreeBSD 7.0?
>> 
>> It seems that currently the machine is maxing out at 512 but there is
>> still loads of capacity left on the machine.
>> 
>> Ideally would like to double at least the number of ttys available,
>> any help would be most appreciated.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/pty_1152.patch
> 
> This might require 7.1 instead of 7.0 as I simplified the pty allocation code 
> in <= 7.x so that it was easier to add new ones.

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