Bug#319048: After some time, cannot open new clients (Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached)
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:29:21AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
>
> It's possible that some other program is trying to open too many
> connections, but I have no idea what that might be. Any help in
> debugging this would be appreciated!
Programs being nice enough (and I think they must have a window,
but that might be hidden) show up with the xlsclients program.
Whatever causes this perhaps does not, but there is a small chance that
might show the culprit. (Also note that xlsclients needs a connection to
the X server to see who is connected, so it wont be able to run after
the situation occours, except perhaps when another connection is
closed before)
Another possibility is to look the physical connections.
netstat -axp (best run as root) should list all connections to local
servers (DISPLAY=:0 and so forth) as STREAM CONNECTED, though sadly
only the side of the Xserver is named (/tmp/.X11-unix/X0), but
heuristics can at least give hints and things to look at.
(Like a connection without filename, with a inode number one smaller
than the /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 unix is normaly a connection to the X
server)
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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