who sees to many users
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Apr 7 20:19:15 UTC 2004
Gerrit wrote:
> # w
> 21:57:57 up 2 days, 36 min, 21 users, load average: 0.10, 0.20, 0.19
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
> gerrit tty1 - Mon10pm 0.00s 0.44s 0.04s login -- gerritgerrit tty2 - Mon10pm 27:42m 0.31s 0.31s -bash
> gerrit tty3 - Mon10pm 37:42m 0.18s 0.18s -bash
> # who
> gerrit tty1 Apr 5 22:13
> gerrit tty2 Apr 5 22:16
> gerrit tty3 Apr 5 22:18
> gerrit pts/1 Apr 5 21:23
> gerrit pts/2 Apr 5 21:23
> gerrit pts/3 Apr 5 21:23
> gerrit pts/4 Apr 5 21:23
> gerrit pts/5 Apr 5 21:23
> gerrit pts/6 Apr 5 21:23
> gerrit pts/7 Apr 5 22:15
> gerrit pts/8 Apr 5 22:15
> gerrit pts/9 Apr 5 22:15
> gerrit pts/10 Apr 5 22:15
> gerrit pts/11 Apr 5 22:15
> gerrit pts/12 Apr 5 22:15
> gerrit pts/19 Apr 6 12:43
> gerrit pts/20 Apr 6 12:43
> gerrit pts/21 Apr 6 12:43
> gerrit pts/22 Apr 6 12:43
> gerrit pts/23 Apr 6 12:43
> gerrit pts/24 Apr 6 12:43
> # ls /dev/pts/
> #
>
> What causes this discrepency, and how may it me solved?
It's not a discrepancy. You probably have a bunch of xterms or
ssh/telnet sessions open. Each one sucks up a /dev/pts and has a user
associated with it. In fact, any network connection (internal or
external) that requires tty semantics sucks up a /dev/pts entry ("pts"
means "pseudo-terminal system", by the way).
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