X11: Maximum number of clients reached

[Mildred Ki'Lya]

On 05/17/2009 12:33 PM, Mildred Ki'Lya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Fedora rawhide since Fedora 11 beta, and everything worked
> fine until recently. Now, if I run a session for a few days (I generally
> don't log out, I suspend my laptop), after some time, I can't run any X
> application anymore. I get the message:
>
> Maximum number of clients reached
>
> If I close some applications, I can continue for some time until the
> error triggers again. Then, I have to log out, and start a fresh session.
>
> If I use xlsclients, (after closing an application I'm quite sure
> doesn't eat up all connections to the X server, like gmpc), I don't get
> such a huge list. Now for example, I get:
>
> $ xlsclients  | wc -l
> 44
>
> From http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/X12 I can see there is a limit of
> 256 clients. I hardly reach the limit. But starting xterm for instance
> is sufficient to trigger the error again.
>
> Do you have any idea where I can gather information to know which
> application is responsible?
>
> As a side note, I'm using the RPM Fusion repository as well (we don't
> have software patents in Europe, and I hope it'll stay this way). I also
> have the flash player installed (I heard that troubles can come from
> there). But I don't think this is the cause of the problem as I don't
> visit that often sites containing flash. And the errors happens anyways.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mildred
>
>   
Well, it seems the best way is to:

lsof | grep libX11.so

I tried the -p --program option of netstat (netstat -anpx | grep
X11-unix), but it doesn't display anything for the X11 socket. I also
tried to match the inode displayed by netstat to a program using lsof
without success. If I try a find -lname '*socketnum*' /proc, no luck either.

So ...

And it seems syndaemon (synaptics daemon that block the touchpad while
we use the keyboard) is responsible.

thanks everyone

Mildred

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