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Date:	Thu, 9 Apr 2015 04:40:34 +0300
From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To:	Peter Hackett <peter DOT hackett AT icmanage DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Running out of ptys
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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.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, April 9, 2015 04:35:12

Sorry for my terrible english...


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