On Friday 01 October 2004 05:28, Geoff Wing wrote:
> Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> typed:
> : I understand that "Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached" can mean
> : several different things. Does anyone have a list of things this can
> : mean?
>
> It's hit a limit on file descriptors.
>
> : xrestop tells me I have 58 clients.
>
> Generally you'll use 7 or 8 fd's as a base.  This indicates you have
> the default 64 file descriptor resource limit still set.

AFAICT, the X server has started leaking file descriptors recently.