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- From: bis@ifi.uio.no (Bjorn Ivar Stark)
- Subject: xterm: no available ptys
- Message-ID: <BIS.92Aug14124438@maud.ifi.uio.no>
- Sender: bis@ifi.uio.no (Bjorn Ivar Stark)
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 11:44:38 GMT
- Lines: 34
- Originator: bis@maud.ifi.uio.no
-
- When I try to start more than a certain limit of xterms I get
- this error-message:
- fosli@asterix: xterm
- xterm: no available ptys
-
- However there is only some few xterms running:
-
- fosli@asterix: ps aux | grep " xterm"
- haugen 26170 0.0 0.0 340 224 - S Jul 24 0:01
- xterm
- haug 29312 0.0 0.0 464 740 - S 08:16:34 0:00
- xterm
- sigurd 32590 0.0 0.0 360 224 - S Aug 11 0:00
- xterm
- haug 36734 0.0 0.0 472 756 - S 08:16:34 0:00
- xterm -e rlogin o
- fosli 43449 0.0 0.0 488 612 - S 17:09:31 0:00
- xterm
- fosli 52875 0.0 0.0 464 564 - S 16:39:57 0:00
- xterm
- fosli 53977 0.0 0.0 64 184 pts/33 S 10:47:42 0:00
- grep xterm
- haug 58485 0.0 0.0 472 748 - S 08:16:34 0:00
- xterm
-
- What is the limit? How can I increse it? Any idea?
- (I can however start other X-applications like aixterms)
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