Bug#440880: xserver-xorg-core: bad behaving clients can starve other clients

[Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de>]

Hello,

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:55:08 +0100, Brice Goglin  
<Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> Jiří Paleček wrote:
> > I tried the xrender benchmark from
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/~zack/xrenderbenchmark.tar.bz2, and when I
> > ran it, it virtually locked up every other X client. I think this is a
> > problem, although such clients are uncommon. Also, I think it would be
> > quite hard to implement some kind of fairness in the xserver.
>
> Sorry for the late reply, we should forward this bug upstream
> (bugzilla.freedesktop.org, product xorg, component Server/General).

Thanks for your answer.

> Before we do so, can you reproduce the problem with xserver-xorg-core  
> 1.4.1
> currently in unstable?

Yes. I see this problem eg. when running freecol, too.

Regards
    Jiri Palecek