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.
Peace.
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