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Date:      Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:09:06 +0100
From:      Frederic Chardon <chardon.frederic@gmail.com>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X11: Maximum number of clients reached ?
Message-ID:  <CAMODbkkH1gsi1KRm4GA5KHUFSJQHowRKRJRsoxq2ERFTNj%2BiAw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200216192228.GA56942@fc.opsec.eu>
References:  <20200216183927.GX1860@fc.opsec.eu> <20200216192228.GA56942@fc.opsec.eu>

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Le dim. 16 f=C3=A9vr. 2020 =C3=A0 20:22, Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> a =C3=
=A9crit :
>
> 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-maxi=
mum-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 <=3D MAXCLIENT=
S */
>
> Changing MAXCLIENTS and LIMITCLIENTS to some other value like 2048
> seems to be possible, but needs an Xorg restart.
>
> TODO: test it, submit PR to increase values.

You can use the -maxclients option to launch X (see man Xserver)

The man page is a little bit misleading (it sounds as if 512 is the
max allowed), I used a value of 1024 in the past without issue (apart
from a warning in Xorg.log).


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