Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Number of windows? Keywords: demo, NeXT Message-ID: <28978@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 2 Dec 88 19:02:24 GMT References: <193@utacfd.UUCP> <1734@csun.edu> <28876@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1813@desint.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 19 In article <1813@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes: |In article <28876@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes: |>The X server sees each client connection through a socket, which |>takes up a file descriptor slot, which counts against NOFILE. For |>example, using an X server compiled before SunOS 3.4, one could only |>have 14 windows open on the screen... | |I bet I'm not the only one who's going to jump on this, but just in case... So far you are the only one. Why is everyone being so gentle today? :-) |Don't confuse X *clients* with X *windows*. NOFILE indeed limits the |number of clients you can have. However, each client can open an |effectively unlimited (i.e., limited by other resources such as |memory) number of windows. You're right - I was imprecise. Perhaps my memory was clouded by the fact that there weren't many multi-window clients under X10, which is what we used in the pre-3.4 period.