[Cialug] RH pty #s

David Champion dchamp1337 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 11:41:18 CST 2012


On my systems, nr does increase with each screen I add, and never decreases
when I close the screens, or kill the screen session all together.

-dc

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:34 AM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Silly question that might have been answered already, but I'm jumping
> in at this point, so excuse me: Are any users using screen or tmux? I
> noticed  that /proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr increments each time I open a
> new "window" in tmux. Therefore, you may have 15 users, but those
> users may be multiplexing their sessions, causing nr to inflate?
>
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