Re: X11: Maximum number of clients reached ?

Jan Beich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> 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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