Hmm...  you may be stuck at 2048...
http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html#pty


On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Matt Alexander wrote:

> If you've got a spare box to test on, you could try increasing the
> MAX_NR_CONSOLES in tty.h for your kernel and then recompiling.
> ~M
>
>
> On 17 Sep 2002, Bill Warner wrote:
>
> > It seems the kernel has a limit on the Unix98 ptys to 2048.  We have a
> > server that needs to have ~3000 telnet sessions running due to tripling
> > capacity.  Is there any way to get this many telnet sessions into a
> > linux box?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bill
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