Maximum number of clients reached?

[Dan Stromberg]

ISTR that the message I'm getting is "maximum number of clients reached 
255".

Also, shouldn't xlsclients tell me if I have ghost windows?  If not, is 
there some other way I should be checking?

Thanks!

James Weatherall wrote:
> 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
>  
>
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>> -----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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