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Date:      Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:15:41 +0100
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X11: Maximum number of clients reached ?
Message-ID:  <h7zq-uw42-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20200216192228.GA56942@fc.opsec.eu> (Kurt Jaeger's message of "Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:22:28 %2B0100")
References:  <20200216183927.GX1860@fc.opsec.eu> <20200216192228.GA56942@fc.opsec.eu>

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Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> writes:

> Hi!
>
>> What is the trick to solve this when this error message comes up ?
>
> Oh my, what a mess:
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/498652/does-x-window-have-a-maximum-number-limit-on-clients
>
> says: Yes, there's a limit, and it's a Xorg startup option.
>
> The limit is a compile time limit in
>
> x11-servers/xorg-server/work/xorg-server-1.18.4/include/misc.h
>
> #define MAXCLIENTS     512
> #define LIMITCLIENTS   256     /* Must be a power of 2 and <= MAXCLIENTS */
>
> Changing MAXCLIENTS and LIMITCLIENTS to some other value like 2048
> seems to be possible, but needs an Xorg restart.

FWIW, upstream bumped MAXCLIENTS to 2048 since xorg-server-1.19.0.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/8217c29d2d8b

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x11-server/xorg-server update to 1.20.* is tracked in bug 196678.



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