On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 4:00 PM, AG <openssh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 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 *Oh*. OK, that suddenly makes a great deal more sense. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
