On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:28:42AM +0000, Geoff Wing wrote:
>Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> typed:
>: I understand that "Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached" can mean
>: several different things. Does anyone have a list of things this can mean?
>
>It's hit a limit on file descriptors.
>
>: xrestop tells me I have 58 clients.
>
>Generally you'll use 7 or 8 fd's as a base.  This indicates you have
>the default 64 file descriptor resource limit still set.
>
>: I tried bumping the descriptors allowed
>
>You have to have this set before you start X.  It's unlikely to
>work setting it (e.g. via sysctl) after it's started.

if the x server is the piece "at fault", then this ought to help:

    # sysctl -w proc.`pgrep X`.rlimit.descriptors.soft=256

maybe?

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