Forwarding further information from submitter. ----- Forwarded message from Lucas Barbuto <lucas@stabat.com> ----- From: Lucas Barbuto <lucas@stabat.com> To: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Subject: Re: Bug#256129: xlib: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:47:57 +1000 Message-ID: <40EDF94D.1070004@stabat.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040605) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 Hi Branden, Branden Robinson wrote: >You're basically asking for the maximum number of clients supported by the >X *server* to be increased. The fact that Xlib can't force the X server to >accept more clients than the X server is configured to is not a bug in >Xlib. (In fact, it would be a pretty easy DoS attack if it could.) > >I am merging this bug with an existing one. It is not likely to be fixed >soon, unfortunately; please see the logs of #233569. Thanks for your reply, perhaps I should have included more detail. I receive the 'Maximum number of clients reached' message after a few days even if I only have a couple of windows open. It's as if the client resources aren't being freed when X clients are killed, so after a few days of use (opening and closing applications) I run out. Is this a known issue? Are we talking about the same thing? It's not as if I have 100 windows open when this happens. If I'm barking up the wrong tree, please ignore. And thanks for your work on Debian. Best Regards, -- Lucas ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- Forwarded message from Lucas Barbuto <lucas@stabat.com> ----- From: Lucas Barbuto <lucas@stabat.com> To: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Subject: Re: Bug#256129: xlib: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:41:15 +1000 Message-ID: <40F1DE2B.1010807@stabat.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040605) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 Hi Branden, Branden Robinson wrote: >On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:47:57AM +1000, Lucas Barbuto wrote: > >>Hi Branden, >> >>Branden Robinson wrote: >> >>>You're basically asking for the maximum number of clients supported by the >>>X *server* to be increased. The fact that Xlib can't force the X server >>>to >>>accept more clients than the X server is configured to is not a bug in >>>Xlib. (In fact, it would be a pretty easy DoS attack if it could.) >>> >>>I am merging this bug with an existing one. It is not likely to be fixed >>>soon, unfortunately; please see the logs of #233569. >> >>Thanks for your reply, perhaps I should have included more detail. I >>receive the 'Maximum number of clients reached' message after a few days >>even if I only have a couple of windows open. It's as if the client >>resources aren't being freed when X clients are killed, so after a few >>days of use (opening and closing applications) I run out. Is this a >>known issue? Are we talking about the same thing? It's not as if I >>have 100 windows open when this happens. >> >>If I'm barking up the wrong tree, please ignore. And thanks for your >>work on Debian. > > >Ah. I think the real bug, then, is that you're effectively being DoSsed by >some of your X clients, which are opening bogus windows and then never >destroying them. > >Do you mind if I send this reply (with your words quoted) to the bug >report? Your reply was private to me. No, of course not. Please let me know if I should include more detail. Apps I most commonly use are Aterm, Firefox and Thunderbird. I can provide some xlsclients and xwininfo outputs if that's helpful. Best Regards, -- Lucas ----- End forwarded message ----- -- G. Branden Robinson | Those who fail to remember the laws Debian GNU/Linux | of science are condemned to branden@debian.org | rediscover some of the worst ones. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Harold Gordon
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