Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcdc!stroyan
From: stroyan@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re: socket limit in HP/UX
Message-ID: <5570255@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 89 18:59:45 GMT
References: <4310050@hpindda.HP.COM>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> Could the socket limitation be a problem with X-windows terminals?
> What if you have an series 800 serving 10 or 20 X-windows terminals
> (I am planning 5 in the next year, and a few more after that)?  What
> limitations could be encountered, and is HP thinking/planning to
> change those limits for this very problem?
> Roger N. Clark

The limit on open file descriptors has no impact on using X11 terminals.
The limit affects how many client connections an X11 server process can
have.  With an X11 terminal the terminal plays the role of an X11 server
instead of the server being a process on the host computer.

Because an X11 terminal user tends to run different programs than a normal
terminal user, the host computer may need more of configurable resources
such as ptys, swap space, and processes.  Each client program started by
a person using an X11 terminal will use at least one process.  Each
terminal emulator window will use a pty device.

Mike Stroyan, stroyan@hpfcla.hp.com