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RE: FAQ 6.9 about Maximum number of clients reached. How to find total # of clients?
- To: "Alexander Gottwald" <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Subject: RE: FAQ 6.9 about Maximum number of clients reached. How to find total # of clients?
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:44:11 -0400
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
I tried ulimit -n 1024 and I get:
bash: ulimit: cannot get limit: Invalid argument
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Alexander
> Gottwald
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:58 AM
> Cc: Charles Sharpe; cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: FAQ 6.9 about Maximum number of clients reached. How to
> find total # of clients?
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Harold Hunt wrote:
>
> > Scott,
> >
> > Try the Test44 release that I just made, it bumps the
> connection limit from
> > 32 to 1024:
> > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/
> >
>
> someone told me some time ago that setting ulimit -n <number> sets the
> maximum connections for X11 to roucghly the number. What about
> changing the
> startup scripts to set the default to eg. 512?
>
> I don't like the idea of changing dynamic configuration to a static one.
>
> Of cause we should put an entry into the FAQ too.
>
> > > I installed CYGWIN and XFREE recently and followed the
> Install guide as
> > > posted @ xfree.cygwin.com. The host PC OS is WIN NT.
> Install was done
> > > 8-7-01. I have the problem listed in the
> cygwin-xfree-faq.htm #6.9 about
> > > Max Clients reached. I connect with a XDMCP session to a SUN
> > > Solaris 7 and
> > > use CDE. Everything works good untill I exec a command that
> opens several
> > > connections. I don't think the connections total more than 25.
> > > Q1. How to I verify how many connections the client is using?
>
> A1. Run netstat and count the connections to local port 6000.
> netstat | grep " *TCP *[^:]*:6000" | wc --lines
> will give you an count of the connections to the xserver. The number
> of open files may be larger, but not too much.
>
> > > Q2. What other information is needed to provide a complete
> picture of the
> > > problem to help find a resolution?
>
> A2. Set the maximum number of open files for a program to a higher value.
> Run "ulimit -n 1024" from a bash und start XWin from this bash.
> This will set the maximum number of open connections to 1024.
>
> HTH, bye
> ago
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