Re: Interesting error message....

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> [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).

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.

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.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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