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Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached



/ "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> was heard to say:
| 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?

I'd be happy to, but the world never checks messages with me.

|> 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.

I find that xlsclients only shows a normal-looking list of about 20
clients when the error occurs.

Any other hints?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this
http://nwalsh.com/            | day-to-day living that wears you
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