Re: Help request: problems with a 5.1 server and large numbers of ssh users.

From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_acm.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:38:26 -0800
Len Sassaman wrote:
> The problem is that after about 150 users log in (300ish sshd sessions, 
> since I am using privsep), incoming connections start getting dropped. 

That number (150) sounds awfully familiar; I feel like
I've seen it somewhere recently.  Hmmmm....

Try an 'fstat' when connections start getting dropped.
I wonder if something (PAM module, maybe?) is opening a
file on each connection and you're running out of per-process
file descriptors.

Tim Kientzle
Received on Thu Nov 20 2003 - 14:38:35 UTC

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