Waaail!

[kerravonsen]

You know that running-out-of-X-clients problem I mentioned yesterday, that I was having with Ion? Well, it's happened again, this time with wmi. Aiieee!

My first thought is that it's the "status" script, because I only started using it last night, and it's since last night that this trouble has happened. Wheras I've been using wmi for, what, a week? without problems... Especially since this thing gets called in a loop every thirty seconds, that could pile up an awful lot of resources...

(sigh)

Comments

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

What is it really running out of? File descriptors?

[kerravonsen]

If it were, how would I check? And how could I track down what processes had the most files open?

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

I'd run lsof and look through the list.

[kerravonsen]

Thanks.
(later) I didn't find anything obviously wierd, except that xmms and mozilla-firefox both seem to be chewing up an awful lot of file descriptors. But the total was still less than my ulimit.

Whether I should just change over to rxvt from xterm anyway, since rxvt seems to consume less... well, I suppose it wouldn't hurt.

Changing from zsh to bash feels a bit too drastic.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

It may mean something else when it says that it's out of X-clients. I have no idea *what* it may mean, though.