> > From decades in the field, I'd say It's pretty weird. I've not > personally seen anything approaching that number of clients on a > single server in..... well, not since I worked with Multics back in > the 1980's. Dozens on a robust system, yes. One thousand? >> We do have some boxes with concurrent ssh-users in the lower 3-digit >> range. But in general this seems to be rare, especially since software >> is often unprepared for and untested in that amount of activity (see >> e.g. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1961). >> >> For the number of X displays, there was never any issue, usually since >> CPU and memory resources run out long before you run out of display >> numbers. Users just pick another box or their laptop, if applications >> are slow, so the number of X displays is self-limiting ;) >> >> >> >> Ciao, >> >> Alexander Wuerstlein. I should clarify, these aren't systems that have users shell access to. It's an X11 forward only, used as a chokepoint into a segregated network. Anyway, I will clean up the patch and add documentation and then report back. I've already created an entry on the bugtracker in case anyone wants to follow along. https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2580 Thx, A _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
