Maximum number of clients reached?

[James Weatherall]

Dan,

What makes you think you're hitting a client limit?  Have you check to make
sure that the X applications you're using are actually quitting when you
think they are?

Cheers,

--
Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Dan Stromberg
> Sent: 21 December 2007 21:08
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Cc: Dan Stromberg
> Subject: Maximum number of clients reached?
> 
> I keep bumping up against the maximum number of clients.  
> Sometimes I'll have as few as 38 windows open (according to 
> xlsclients), and still I hit the limit.
> 
> I like to log in, and stay logged in a long time, leaving 
> lots of windows open so I can flip back to the quickly and 
> easily using a large pager in fvwm2.  Because I keep hitting 
> this limit, I have to kill all my windows and start over from 
> time to time.  Perhaps in a windows environment that's 
> unsurprising, but in the Linux world, it's weird.
> 
> I've had the same problem for a long time - across multiple 
> OS upgrades.  I'm currently having the problem with the 
> openSUSE 10.3 version of Xvnc, which is based on RealVNC 4.1.2.
> 
> Is this a known problem in vanilla RealVNC 4.1.2?  Is there a 
> fix or workaround - like perhaps increasing the limit from 
> 255 to 65535 or something?  That way, I could at least leak 
> clients longer.  :)
> 
> If it matters, the openSUSE Xvnc has 1301 lines of patches 
> applied to it, relative to the upstream sources.  It's not 
> massively modified, but not minisculely either.
> 
> Thanks!
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