Re: Configurable Kernel Parameters

Ian Eure (ieure@crosssound.narrows.com)
Tue, 11 May 1999 18:12:10 -0700

"KO,GWON-HEE (HP-Boise,ex1)" wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> Are there configurable kernel parameters in linux?
> i.e.: Max Stack Segment Size, Max/min Dynamic Buffer Cache Size, Number of
> pseudo ttys ...etc
> If there are, how do you configure them?
Take a look in /proc/sys with recent (>=2.1.xxx) kernels.

AFAIK, ptys are dynamically allocated. Older kernels (thinking 1.2.x,
2.0.x here) were limited to 64, but I believe that there was a value you
could change to give you more or less of them.

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