Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!ico!ism780c!support From: support@ism780c.isc.com (Support account) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: X Windows under ISC 2.2 Message-ID: <47579@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 18 Sep 90 17:51:18 GMT References: Reply-To: support@ism780c.UUCP (Support account) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 26 In article bfls@cain.anu.edu.au (Barbara La Scala) writes: >I am unable to get more than five clients to run using ISC's Xvga server. Has >anyone come across such a phenomenon and can offer me some advice? I have >RTFM and they suggest: > (1) do a netstat -m to check STREAMS resource usages. > I have done this and there have been no failures to allocate resources. > (2) check how many pseudo terminals have been configured. > I have sixteen ptys configured but the largest number of xterms I have > been able to start is 5. > (3) check the values of NOFILES, NPROC, MAXUP > I have and they all seem fine. > Other X related system tunables are NSTREAM, NUMSP, and NQUEUE. While the X documentation lists suggested settings for system tunables and pseudo terminals, these settings will not be optimum for every installation. If you experience problems such as not being able to open more than a certain number of windows, you may have to adjust tunables up or increase the number of pseudo terminals configured. Try increasing NUMSP first since that is the one related parameter not automatically increased during X installation. ... SUP