Re: Interesting error message....

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>> [bob@groucho inbox]$ xhost +localhost
>> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>> Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
>> xhost:  unable to open display ":0"
>> 
>> Running KDE, 4 desktops, 15 base frames running. It chokes on #16....
>
>Typing the "Max..." error message into deja's power search (limited 
>to *linux* newsgroups) turns up some talk about it.
>One thread says you're running out of PTY's.  It's a kernel compile
>option and defaults to 256 (not sure about Redhat's kernel setting).
OK, I'll check that, come next compile.

>Another thread talks about a bug in KDE spawning too many "kioslave"
>processes (look for KDE processes with the "ps" command) and they are 
>using up your PTY's.
Well, i looked, and I had 93 of them. I thought that was a lot, checked 
another KDE system that does NOT have that problem, and found 1, so I
figured that I had 92 too many..... 

>It seems to be related to KDE since I don't see the problem with 
>XFCE and I started over 72 xterm windows without any problem on a
>remote and local display both.
... so I killed them all, thinking that if KDE needs one, it'll respawn 
one, and if I'm wrong, it'll all collapse and die, so after saving all my 
real work....

Well, The loadmeter went through the roof for about 5 minutes! It was like 
giving the box one big wallop with a hammer! but it settled down and Now
I can spawn LOTS of windows!


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