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Which process is eating ptys in my Linux server?
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Mar 15, 20263703 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
The number of used pty's as reported in is getting constantly larger on my server. How can I find out which processes are using the ptys, short of killing them one after another and checking if the usage count decreases?
Error Output
/proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr
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This appears to be a bug in Linux kernel1 - the counter is never decremented, even if ptys are deallocated. In a standard2 setup, should show the actual ptys allocated at the moment, and you can run on them to list all processes using a particular pā¦
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