what is the limit on number of concurrent Xvnc servers?

["Beerse, Corné"]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjvrn Persson [mailto:bjorn_persson@sverige.nu]
>
> Beerse, Corni wrote:
> > How do you mean? X11 always use the network, that's one of the design
> > basics of X11. By default it is the loopback device (localhost,
127.0.0.1)
> > but it is always used.
>
> X also has other, presumably faster, means of communicating with local
> clients. I think it can use both Unix sockets and shared memory. If you
give
> "-nolisten tcp" on the command line to Xfree86 or XVNC, it won't accept
> connections from clients on other machines but still work just fine with
> local clients. With "-nolisten local" it only listens on TCP, so even
local
> clients have to make the detour over the networking subsystem.


With this not-local or not-remote, the X11 system just ignores communciation
from that direction. You can easy check that X11 needs the network interface
by disabling all network devices. That is, including the loopback network
device. You will see X11 is not working.

As far as I know, this faster communication by sockets and shared memory
that you inicate is the implementation of the local-loop network devices
(with IP address "127.0.0.1" and hostname "localhost").

CBee