Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!wsl.dec.com!klee
From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: MAX_CLIENTS limit
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.103245@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 18:32:45 GMT
References: <092038.4078@timbuk.cray.com>
Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News)
Reply-To: klee@wsl.dec.com
Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory
Lines: 16

In article <092038.4078@timbuk.cray.com>, cmfb@cray.com (Chris Bone) writes:
|> Can anyone tell me where the maximum number of clients allowed is defined? 

This is set by the server.  Some operating systems, for example, allow
only 32 open files per process or restrict select() to 32 descriptors.
Servers on these systems will stop accepting clients when these limits
are reached.

There are similar limits in Xlib for the maximum number of displays
that can be opened, though this is rarely a problem.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee