Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Butash
Yeah, I've run into that first, I blew out/increased my ulimit's to those to some 768k from a default 32k (chrome, thanks), and didn't seem to hit those last time, rather just the xclient limit. Not really sure how much I *should* open them really, considering 32k is default, even setting to 3

Re: OT: Laptop Disposal

2015-06-14 Thread Greg Warner
I did some searching a few weeks ago on the topic of laptop recycling. It sounds like Goodwill in partnership with Dell recycles, though I'm not sure if all do: http://www.goodwill.org/press-releases/goodwill-and-dell-expand-free-computer-recycling-programs/ I found this company, but they never r

MEETING: Free/Open Source Software Stammtisch on Tues (6/16)

2015-06-14 Thread PLUG Announcements
Wikipedia describes a Stammtisch as: A Stammtisch (German: "regulars table") is an informal group meeting held on a regular basis, and also the usually large, often round table around which the group meets. A Stammtisch is not a structured meeting, but rather a friendly get-together. Or in ot

Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-14 Thread Brian Cluff
I was just googling around and found someone who mentioned that the "Maximum number of clients reached" can mean literally that, or can mean that your system has run out of file descriptors. Check the output of lsof instead of xlsclients and see if you can figure out what is eating your system s

Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Butash
And right after, could no longer unlock my desktop to get at it, even switch ctrl-alt-F1 and back to F7, which normally works until the system just comes unglued. So there's apparently 2 layers of problems: 1) xorg clients exceed counts

Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Butash
Ah, xbmc/kodi seems to be a big reason. Fired kodi up to catch certain season ending content tonight, and yeah, took me from 118 xclients before to max after.  At least I got to watch though. I tried to launch something after moving it to the backgro

Re: lightening

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Havens
I just realized something. The surge had to jump two devices to get to my computer! (modem/router connected to a router (using as switch) connected to the computer). On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > Poor grounding and circuit isolation. Probably more common than not >

Re: lightening

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Butash
I doubt it was introduced via an actual piece of coax/twisted-pair (dsl) or ethernet anyways, probably more a surge in the power lines themselves, and some devices reacted more adversely than others.  Could have just been akin to an electromagnetic pulse being rel

Re: lightening

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Butash
Poor grounding and circuit isolation.  Probably more common than not with the race to make cheaper/self-destructing devices so they can sell you another. -mb On 06/14/2015 12:41 AM, Michael Havens wrote: Yeah I was on my co

lightening

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Havens
Yeah I was on my computer during a thunder storm. Bad boy! I fried my NIC. Why I am telling you this is the surge went through the modem and fried my NIC. How did it bypass the modem? (for more info: http://thesimplefromthesimple.blogspot.com/2015/06/toast.html -- :-)~MIKE~(-: ---

Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Butash
Biggest problem seems to be the maximum framebuffer resolution they seem to bake into cards - kinda why I asked what yours reported.  Seems fools that pay that long dollar for the really expensive cards don't ever actually run linux to post results, nor does any o

Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-14 Thread Stephen Partington
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Re: xorg: Maximum number of clients reached

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Butash
Hah, I thought about that, matrox and their old crappy pci cards with many display ports.  They never supported linux for anything, nor did anything 3d to save their life with any performance, even under windoze xp, so I don't expect they'd like any sort of modern