Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> output:
:On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:28:42AM +0000, Geoff Wing wrote:
:>Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> typed:
:>: 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?

Unfortunately, no, it doesn't.  That's what I presumed Jeremy Reed tried
and I specified that that approach would be unlikely to work in this case.

MaxClients for the server is set from getdtablesize() during initialisation.

Regards,
Geoff