X11: Maximum number of clients reached

[Adam Jackson]

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".

- ajax
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