Xref: utzoo comp.unix.i386:2979 comp.windows.x:18543
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!redsox!campbell
From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.windows.x
Subject: ISC X11R3 runs out of resources, but which ones?
Message-ID: <1537@redsox.bsw.com>
Date: 16 Feb 90 04:14:13 GMT
Reply-To: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Lines: 40

(System: 386/ix running ISC X11R3 V1.1 on vanilla VGA)

Inevitably, after using X for a while,I lose the ability to open new
connections to my server.  When I try to start a new application, I get, for
example:

	/usr2/campbell> xrdb -query
	xrdb: No such device or address
	xrdb: Can't open display 'unix:0'
	/usr2/campbell>

I suspect I'm running out of some resource, because if I reboot my system
I can successfully start all the applications I was originally trying and
failing to.

I have checked streams resources with /etc/crash -- I've never run out
of any stream buffers.  Here's the strstat output:

ITEM                  CONFIG   ALLOC     425788      90       0
data block size    4     128        0     128        169046       5       0
data block size   16     256       26     230         32667      32       0
data block size   64     256        0     256        144056      51       0
data block size  128     128        0     128         47583      62       0
data block size  256      64        0      64         16875      15       0
data block size  512      32        0      32          8806      10       0
data block size 1024      32        0      32          2684       4       0
data block size 2048      32        0      32          3978       7       0
data block size 4096       4        0       4            93       3       0

Count of scheduled queues:   0

I'm not using very many ptys -- three or four typically, and I'm configured
for 16.  I have 10MB of memory and have configured the kernel
appropriately.  I'm the only user.  No console messages are appearing.

How can I figure out what I'm short of so I can bump it up?
-- 
Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
campbell@redsox.bsw.com                 120 Fulton Street
wjh12!redsox!campbell                   Boston, MA 02109