sshd hanging after multiple successive logons

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 douglas.manton at uk.ibm.com wrote:

> The problem is that after so many connections, the parent sshd hangs and
> does not accept any more connections.  I have reproduced the problem using
> a simple shell script on my local machine:

I am running something similar now (770 connections and counting).

What version of OpenSSH are you running? If you can, please try the 
snapshot[1] and see if that resolves the problem. 

If you can run sshd under a debugger, try sending it an ABRT signal 
when it locks and see where it was stuck.

Regards,
Damien

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