On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 12:51 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 13:53 +0200, Mildred Ki'Lya wrote: > >> On 05/18/2009 06:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 09:26 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > >>>> Check the output of 'sudo lsof -p `pidof Xorg`' when this happens. This > >>>> will show you what file descriptors are in use by the X server. Last I > >>>> checked this error message was misleading, and could mean either "I've > >>>> hit the client limit" or "I've run out of file descriptors". > >>>> > >>> That would be: > >>> > >>> su -c lsof -p `pidof X` > >> Hi, > >> > >> So, it happened again. There are 234 opened sockets, and the last file > >> descriptor seems to be 255u, so perhaps there is a limit there. Any > >> ideas on how to find the program responsible for that? > > > > The 'u' just means the file is opened read/write. The actual fd number > > is 255, which is certainly suspicious. Just for kicks, try 'ulimit -n' > > to see if your open file limit is set too low for some odd reason. > > It's not that suspicious :o) look for XFD_SETSIZE and MAXCLIENTS in the > X server source code. It's still a hardcoded limit in the server. Well on my system the above incantation gives over 1200 open files, and I'm assuming we're all using the same X server since it's F11-pre or similar. poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
