Configuring font server connection limits

It is possible to overload a given font server with requests for fonts. To prevent this from happening, you can change two aspects of the font server:

• a limit on the number of clients that can connect to the font server

• whether or not a font server will clone itself if the client limit is reached

For example, you can configure the font server to limit the number of clients that can connect to it at one time to 20. Then, if that limit is reached, clone another font server.

To do this, follow these steps:

1. Log in as root.

2. Edit the font server configuration file. The default is /usr/lib/X11/fs/config.
   

3. Insert the keyword client-limit. Set it to 20 (or whatever value you want):

      client-limit = 20
   

4. Reset the font server with the fontserv command:
   
   fontserv reset