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Re: pty limit set to 100 ?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 17:20:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: pty limit set to 100 ?
- References: <20070508203926.93187.qmail@web27710.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:39:26PM +0100, Bruce Bushby wrote:
>Greetings list
>
>I have searched the mail archives for "pty limit" but
>didn't find anything....also a little pushed for time
>hence my lack of RTFM or further searching
>
>I'm running the latest Cygwin on a windows XP lenovo
>T60 laptop. I elected to install "everything" and
>added
>pexpect (expect for python). I have a ksh shell that
>calls my pexpect script with an IP address and throws
>it into the background. Ideally I'd like to launch
>2000 procs, but am hitting a "pty limit" of 100.
>
>I experience the same pty limit if I use normal
>expect, so I assume it's a cygwin "ulimit" of sorts.
>
>How do I increase the default pty limit of 100 to
>3000?
Run linux?
But seriously, you can't. The pty limit is hard wired at somewhere
around 128 or so.
cgf
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