Gregg Dameron <gregg.dameron_at_lmco.com> writes:
> Running 2.4.5 on Solaris.
>
> Occasionally I do some iterative trial-and-error things in my
> StartFunction and/or InitFunction. For the StartFunction, I
> restart, and for the InitFunction, I launch (from an xterm) with the
> -replace option. If I do either of those things enough times (on
> the order of a few dozen), eventually I get the error:
>
> Xlib: connection to "<display>" refused by server
> Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
> Error: Can't open display: <display>
>
> and I have to log off and back on (to reset the X server). Does
> anyone know of a way to tell when the X server is approaching its
> limit (or, for that matter, what the limit is)? Is there a
> workaround?
I got this from:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=39db35c3%40pfaff.ethz.ch&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dmaximum%2Bnumber%2Bof%2Bclients%2Bgroup:comp.unix.solaris%26hl%3Den%26selm%3D39db35c3%2540pfaff.ethz.ch%26rnum%3D1
From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc_at_alum.calberkeley.org)
Subject: Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris
Date: 2000-10-04 09:45:48 PST
Stef <stef_at_sos.ethz.ch> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|After I have about 90 xterms open on my Sparc with Solaris 8, I can't
|open aymore X clients. I get:
|
|Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
|Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
|
|How can I increase the number of maximal possible clients?
Install the latest Xsun patches and add "-clients 1024" to the Xsun
command line (if using the standard login screen, copy
/usr/dt/config/Xservers to /etc/dt/config/Xservers, then edit the last
line in /etc/dt/config/Xservers).
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Received on Wed May 08 2002 - 14:09:25 BST