[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#618323: chromium-browser: Chromium overloads X server: "Maximum number of clients reached"

[Thibaut VARENE]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thibaut VARENE wrote:
>
>> $ xlsclients |wc -l
>> 37
>> $ xwininfo -root -children|wc -l
>> 905
>> $ xwininfo -root -children|grep chromium|wc -l
>> 626
> [...]
>> FWIW, I have only one open Chromium "window" with 15 tabs.
>
> I smell a leak.  Does closing all Chromium windows and starting
> Chromium again bring the numbers down to a manageable level?

Indeed it does

$ xwininfo -root -children|wc -l
274

FWIW, I'm frequently opening new tabs which I'm closing after to never
open back again. Cumulated, all the tabs I've had opened since the
beginning of that previous Chromium session may well have reached
~100+

HTH

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Thibaut VARENE
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