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Re: Running out of ptys
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Peter Hackett <peter dot hackett at icmanage dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 04:40:34 +0300
- Subject: Re: Running out of ptys
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- References: <5525D237 dot 9030504 at icmanage dot com>
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Greetings, Peter Hackett!
Please don't top-post, and teach your mail agent to insert proper threading
headers.
>> On Apr 6 16:21, Peter Hackett wrote:
>> > It looks like the maximum number of ptys under Cygwin is 64.
>> >
>> > I have two 2160x3840 (4K) monitors and I'm running into this limit.
>> > I would like to raise it.
>>
>> The number of ttys is limited by the size of the global shared memory
>> area, 64K. Right now this shared mem area is not used completely. We
>> should be able to handle 128 ttys without much of a problem. I applied
>> a patch for that and uploaded new developer snapshots to
>> https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please give it a try.
> Corinna,
> Thank you very much!
> Unfortunately I ran into a problem.
> Referring to FAQ 2.19. "How do I install snapshots?" I downloaded:
> 2015-04-07 10:25:12 UTC x86_64/cygwin1-20150407.dll.xz
Do you actually run 64-bit Cygwin?
uname -a
?
> unxz'ed it, and installed it in c:\cygwin\bin
> When I tried to run "Cygwin Terminal" I got:
> "mintty.exe - Application Error
> The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)."
> Do I need to install "everything"? (E.g. x86_64/cygwin-inst-20150407.tar.xz)
Make sure you exit everything Cygwin before installing the snapshot.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, April 9, 2015 04:35:12
Sorry for my terrible english...
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