Hi Julien, On Wed, 2 Oct 2024, at 8:38 AM, jargaud@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I need to connect more than 64 clients to a PulseAudio server > (PulseAudio 16.1 on Debian 12), 100 to be exact. > From the 65th client, I cannot retrieve the list of devices. I've seen > this warning in journalctl: > Warning! Too many connections (64), dropping incoming connection. > > I've seen the limitation in pulsecore/protocol-esound.c : > #define MAX_CONNECTIONS 64 You want protocol-native.c, not protocol-esound.c. > Could anyone confirm the following points: > 1. To modify this limit, there is no other way than to download, > modify and build the PulseAudio sources (i've searched among the > configuration files without result). That is correct. > 2. Changing this limit to 100 won't affect the PulseAudio performance > too much. It should be fine, at least in so far as you have the resources to serve up whatever the clients need. I believe this define was just set a long time ago, and we've not really had much pull to change this. If you find yourself switching to PipeWire and using the pipewire-pulse bridge, the max clients can be changed in configuration there. Cheers, Arun
