Comment 8 for bug 1518411

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Brett Johnson (linuxturtle) wrote : Re: "Maximum number of clients reached", new in Ubuntu 15.10

A little more info, as I've been trying to watch the output of xwininfo -root -children, as well as xrestop over time.

As I mentioned before, the number of root children keeps growing over time. It starts out under 100, and grows over time. When the "Maximum number of clients reached" problem started this time, it was at 322 (lower than last time). However, I also watched the output of "xrestop -m 1 -b | grep ^[0-9]" over time, and watched it grow from around 42, to 255 when the problem manifested itself (same as last time). I think this is more significant, because the 255 seems to be a cap, and it never goes higher than this. Is there an 8-bit table somewhere in X that if it fills up, could cause this syptom?