X11: Maximum number of clients reached

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 09:26 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 12:33 +0200, Mildred Ki'Lya wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm running Fedora rawhide since Fedora 11 beta, and everything worked
> > fine until recently. Now, if I run a session for a few days (I generally
> > don't log out, I suspend my laptop), after some time, I can't run any X
> > application anymore. I get the message:
> > 
> > Maximum number of clients reached
> > 
> > If I close some applications, I can continue for some time until the
> > error triggers again. Then, I have to log out, and start a fresh session.
> 
> Check the output of 'sudo lsof -p `pidof Xorg`' when this happens.  This
> will show you what file descriptors are in use by the X server.  Last I
> checked this error message was misleading, and could mean either "I've
> hit the client limit" or "I've run out of file descriptors".

That would be:

su -c lsof -p `pidof X`

poc