On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:56:21AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 19:12, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:05:55PM -0500, xavier wrote: > > > > > > Is there a drawback in doing such thing ? > > > > I don't know. Possibly resource consumption in the X server, but most > > machines today have a lot more to spare in the way of resources than > > machines did when this limit was probably initially set. > > > > > If not, do you think there might be a possibility for debian > > > to compile it with 512 max clients ? > > > > I do think it's a possibility yes. I just want to find out from someone > > who knows whether there would be any serious drawbacks to doing so. > > See http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@xfree86.org/msg01104.html (Start > of thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@xfree86.org/msg01095.html) Sounds like they think it's a bad idea. That changing MAXCLIENTS "breaks module compatibility" is a bit of a concern. -- G. Branden Robinson | Kissing girls is a goodness. It is Debian GNU/Linux | a growing closer. It beats the branden@debian.org | hell out of card games. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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