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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
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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