aspgasd@cid.aes.doe.ca (Alain St-Denis) (05/08/90)
We encountered a strange problem. A bunch of users (~20) logged in using telnet (in fact, they logged in through CDCNET (don't ask why...)). At some point the machine would freeze and print the following message on the console (many times): Bufcall: could not allocate stream event. And everything would be back to normal a minute later. It seemed to us that the only users who froze were those connected through telnetd. I was connected with rlogind and I wasn't aware of any problem until someone told me. Would there be a problem with the way telnetd handles ptys? Or am I asking a stupid question? Is there a kernel parameter that can fix that. If it's a bug, is there a fix? Thanks, -- Alain St-Denis Centre informatique de Dorval Environnement Canada astdenis@cid.aes.doe.CA (514) 421-4697