on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:14:49AM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:21:58PM -0500, Norman Walsh (ndw@nwalsh.com) wrote: > > > Hello world, > > Sorry, the world is out of the office for a moment, can you take a > message? > > > After running for a couple of days, I get: > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached > > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0 > > > > I don't see an enormous number of processes running or anything. Can > > anyone suggest why I'd run out of connections? Can I increase the > > number allowed somehow? > > > > This is on a debian box running unstable. > > I believe I've run into this in the past, though I can't find my own > post on the topic. > > IIRC, there's a hardcoded limit somewhere in X to the number of clients > which can connect. Quickly scanning Google Groups suggests it's 127. > One possibility is that you've got a client which is poorly behaved and > is spawning a number of instances which X is treating as independent > clients. There are some tools to view and list clients, though they > don't come to me off the top of my head. 'xlsclients' is one. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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