# from MJang
# on Tuesday 04 October 2011 20:14:
>For some reason, I can't find / (or google) the limit on the number of
>terminals that you can open in a GUI. I assume the limit is on the
>number of CLIs (e.g. if the limit is 100, I assume that I could open
> ten terminals with 10 tabs each).
I have often seen the message "Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached".
This limit applies to all of your windows (not just terminal emulators)
plus some sockets and X11 IPC. Depending on your X version, you might
only be able to open around 250 emulator windows.
Until somewhat recently, MAXCLIENTS=256 was compiled into Xorg, then it
got bumped to 512, and is now finally going to become a setting in the
config file? I often have ~60 terminals, ~70 konquerors, ~80 gvims,
and other assorted windows in my typical taskbar. But it's not just
crazies like me who hit the limit anymore: Apparently firefox and
google-chrome are using multiple "windows" to render sub-parts of a
page (probably to manage tabs too) and each of these count as
a "client".
--Eric
--
So malloc calls a timeout and starts rummaging around the free chain,
sorting things out, and merging adjacent small free blocks into larger
blocks. This takes 3 1/2 days.
--Joel Spolsky
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