More than 64 connections

[jargaud at tixeo.com]

Hello everyone,

I need to connect more than 64 clients to a PulseAudio server (PulseAudio 16.1 on Debian 12), 100 to be exact.
From the 65th client, I cannot retrieve the list of devices. I've seen this warning in journalctl:
Warning! Too many connections (64), dropping incoming connection.

I've seen the limitation in pulsecore/protocol-esound.c :

#define MAX_CONNECTIONS 64

Could anyone confirm the following points:

- 
To modify this limit, there is no other way than to download, modify and build the PulseAudio sources (i've searched among the configuration files without result).
- 
Changing this limit to 100 won't affect the PulseAudio performance too much.

Feel free to ask any additional information.

Thank you and have a nice day !

Julien
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