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From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: too many x clients on the same ISC host?
Message-ID: <31891@cup.portal.com>
Date: 19 Jul 90 19:44:11 GMT
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Does anybody know how many clients you can run on the last release (not
the one released on man 8th) of ISC unix, (I guess the word "prenultimate")?

I am running a total of about 50 processes (most of them are daemons and 
spoolers for a system I am developing), and I have X on the system running
both the server and the clients. What I notice is that I cannot run more than
4 or 5 X clients at the same time the spoolers and daemons are running.
not including x, the system has TCP/IP, NFS - you know, the full developers
system.

Sometimes X reports:

Notice: File table over flow,

when it cant start a client, and other times it gives the message 
"... broken pipe from server "??", after 0 requests... blah blah blah"

My system has 8 megs of memory, there should be about 6 megabytes for
the X clients when the spooling and daemon and the rest of the system
are fully running. 

Is there a parameter that one can tweak to let me run more X clients?

Thanks in advance -

bruce
deadhead@cup.portal.com