Thanks to
Nikola Milutinovic <Nikola.Milutinovic_at_ev.co.yu>
Sean O'Connell <sean_at_stat.Duke.EDU>
Steve VanDevender <stevev_at_hexadecimal.uoregon.edu>
who suggested that I should inrease the ptys in /dev
with e.g.
# MAKEDEV PTY_1
(see 'man MAKEDEV')
which should avoid the problems.
The source for it (caused by ssh 2.0.13) remains
and Jie Gao <J.Gao_at_isu.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> I have had the same problem, but it only happens when the remote
> session kills itself, or is killed, without properly logging out.
Regards,
Stephan
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original posting:
>
> Hi gurus,
>
> a couple of weeks ago I installed ssh 2.0.13 some machines running
> DU 4.0e and it seemed to work fine. Now I occasionally find
> 'sshd2' process on one of the machines which are not related to
> any user but consume almost all the CPU time.
>
> Now it seems that this occurs if a users connects with ssh
> but we are out of pty's. So i ran sys_check and increased e.g.
> maxusers from 32 to 128. The problem however is still there.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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Stephan Pomp
http://www.tsl.uu.se/~pomp
email: pomp_at_tsl.uu.se
spomp_at_vxcern.cern.ch
Uppsala Universitet Phone: +46-18-471 32 53
The Svedberg Laboratory Fax : +46-18-471 38 33
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75 121 Uppsala
Sweden
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