Xlib: maximum number of clients reached

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:58:06PM -0800, Geoff Kingsmill wrote:
>   I have a number of eight headed workstations that each need in the order of 500 clients (X-Displays).
>     After bringing up 250 odd clients I get the following error:-
>         Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached.        <--
>  
>   In Solaris the number of clients can be increased by passing the "-clients 1024" to the X-Server startup.
>     I am running RHEL V5.1 (Xorg V7.1.1). Is there a way to increase the number of clients that can be used with the Xorg X-Server?

Hi,
You have to rebuild, changing the MAXCLIENTS definition.

Cheers,
Daniel
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