Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!desint!geoff From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Number of windows? Keywords: demo, NeXT Message-ID: <1813@desint.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 88 07:01:42 GMT References: <193@utacfd.UUCP> <1734@csun.edu> <28876@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Organization: Interrupt Technology Corp., Manhattan Beach, CA Lines: 18 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... 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. An X server running 15 clients probably has 20 to 100 windows open, depending on the clients and on the window manager being used. -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com uunet!desint!geoff