On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 08:14:46PM -0700, MJang wrote: > For some reason, I can't find / (or google) the limit on the number of > terminals that you can open in a GUI. I assume the limit is on the > number of CLIs (e.g. if the limit is 100, I assume that I could open ten > terminals with 10 tabs each). I presume the limit is in some > configuration file someplace. Which file would it be?
An XTerm session uses a pts device (in /dev/pts). I don't know of a limit to the number of pts (other than max open files, /proc/sys/fs/file-max), but I think each pts uses a pty, which is limited by /proc/sys/kernel/pty/max me@myhost:~$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pty/max 4096 Just curious, why do you ask? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
