The compositor

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 10/01/04 00:17, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> I guess performance should be fairly identical. My main concern is
> stability of the X server, it's the third crash tonite...
> 
> HW accelereted render causes lockups (with the X process eating 99% of
> the CPU) while SW render simply crashes the X server after a while (15
> minutes or so) or under high use (like running xcreensaver-demo).
> 
> The problem is that xcompmgr shows the exact same behaviour so I doubt
> it's a problem with xfwm4's compositor...

aside from the fact that an X server crash is by definition an X server
bug ^_~.  though i guess the WM is a somewhat special client.  but still,
i'd think even the WM shouldn't be able to make the X server crash, by
design.

	-brian