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From: mwz@kaffa.anu.oz.au (Markus Zellner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X server has too few connections - how to increase ?
Summary: Need to increase the number of connections on an MIT X server
Keywords: X
Message-ID: <mwz.654846064@kaffa>
Date: 2 Oct 90 05:41:04 GMT
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Organization: ANU Department of Computer Science
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I am running a program that requires (in certain tests) 64 xterms or
XView shelltools to be open at the same time.  When I try and run this
program under the standard MIT X server, I get a message along the lines
of "too many connections".  I have RTFMed the man pages and there
doesn't seem to be any way short of recompiling the server to increase
the number of connections the X server is allowed to make.

What I want to know is whether this connection limit (which seems to be
set at 64 at the moment) can be increased, and if so how.  If it means
server recompilation, the locations of the files and what need to be
changed in them would be much appreciated (I had a look and couldn't
find anything obvious). 

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Markus Zellner | Phd Student | mwz@anucsd.anu.oz.au