Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached -- firefox?

[Nicholas Miell]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 10:26 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> I'm rather happily running FC6 on my Thinkpad Z61t.  I got even happier 
> when I discovered that suspend works without a hitch, with no pre-suspend 
> fiddling required.  On resume, everything comes back up including my 
> WPA-encrypted ipw3945 wireless connection, and this with my HDD in AHCI 
> mode.  All very, very shiny.
> 
> So I haven't shut down or logged out in a week.  Today, though I started 
> getting errors like this upon trying to start new apps:
> 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
> 
> 'xrestop' takes an absurd amount of CPU time to run, but seems to indicate 
> that firefox has a huge number of windows open (over 2500).  I certainly 
> don't have that many windows/taps actually open, but I also haven't shut 
> down firefox in almost a week.
> 
> Is this a firefox bug that needs reporting?  If not, where should I be 
> looking?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Some combination of Firefox and Flash leak X connections. I think maybe
it's just the Flash 9 beta, but I don't really know for sure.

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net>