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I've been using awesome for about a year now, and never had it crash. Xmonad, however, while never crashing, would cause my Xorg process to eventually use all a
by psadauskas 17y ago
I've been using awesome for about a year now, and never had it crash. Xmonad, however, while never crashing, would cause my Xorg process to eventually use all available RAM after several days of use without restarting.
- dons 17y agoThat's extremely unlikely to be xmonad -- it is more symptomatic of writing status to a pipe that is never read from (in an external status bar). Either way, we'd certainly love to know more, since this has never been reported before.
- jrockway 17y agoYeah, I have played with Awesome recently and it is not nearly as flaky anymore. I still enjoy xmonad's test suite, however. Software that ships with a test suite tends to be more reliable than software that doesn't have tests. (Example of software without a test suite: Emacs. No tests anywhere; not for the byte compiler, not for the memory allocator, nowhere. I am amazed it works at all.)
- uninverted 17y agoWhat? You say that software with tests is more reliable, and then give an example of reliable software without tests.