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From: brossard%litsun.epfl.ch@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Alain Brossard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XSun server
Message-ID: <8911081543.AA06357@litsun.litsun.epfl.ch>
Date: 8 Nov 89 15:43:26 GMT
References: <891108154201.206000b6@SIC.Epfl.CH>
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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In article <891108154201.206000b6@SIC.Epfl.CH> you write:
>
>        Whenever I reach some magic limit having to do with the
>       number of windows on the screen, I get the following message when
>       I try to start a new application:
>
>You haven't supplied enough information.  Please be more detailed in
>future messages.

        Oups, that's what happens when we do to many things at a time so:

  X11R3, patch level 9 + Purdue speed-ups, on a Sun 3/60 running sunOS3.5
or 4.0 (occurs on both).

        The message occurs after I have the following on the screen:
14 xterms doing various things,
1 xload
1 xbiff
1 xpostit with 15 notes (independant windows)

        Now if I run xterm:
litsun2[1]$ xterm
XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "(null)"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.

        or xplaces:
litsun2[1]$ xplaces
XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "(null)"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.

        Just putting a bunch of xterms will do it.  I'm not running out
of pty's and I should point out that some of those xterms were not
started on the same machine.  Display is litsun5:0.0, while the example
above was started on machine litsun2.

        I have recently recompiled X11 with gcc but this had no impact
on this problem.

        I can also add that if I kill xpostit with all its windows, it
allows me to restart only one program and not more than that.

                                        Alain Brossard
                                        brossard@litsun.epfl.ch