xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

Stephen Partington cryptworks at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 20:09:50 MST 2015


Have you tried weyland yet to see if it is any improvement? I think fedora
has a build running weyland. (memory is fuzzy on this one.)
On Jun 11, 2015 5:20 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> So this seems to be a big problem for me, in that it simply refuses to
> open new apps, and find this happens more and more these days. Am I like
> the only actual person to use linux these days that this occurs with?
>
> I've seen reports of this, stating it's a hard-coded thing in xorg code,
> which I find entirely asinine, but seems a reality when using
> Chrome/Chromium that launches some 300 flocks on various things, and blows
> out the 256/512 client count on xorg.  I find this almost stupid, and feel
> I'm back to the days of windoze me having to reboot every other day.
>
> Reality is I have 3 chrome profiles open, some pdfs, libreoffice, some
> chrome apps, some file manager windows (dolphin/kde), and not much else.
> Sort of want to punch someone in the face when I see this - someone is
> obviously doing something wrong, and really can't see why.  All I can ever
> think is really, am I the only person that really "uses" a linux desktop to
> see these?
>
> Uninstalling pepperflash, or any flash vermin, seems to have done some
> good, no longer causing a persistent memory leak in xorg/fglrx drivers, but
> otherwise chrome|chromium still seems an absolute basketcase under linux,
> forgetting there are resource limits they should consider adhering to.
>
> -mb
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